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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (August 21 1853 – July 25 1936) FRS was an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs which is one of the four large companies that merged to form GlaxoSmithKline. In addition he left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will which was used to form the Wellcome Trust one of the world’s largest medical charities.
