Background
Beecham was the eldest son of Thomas Beecham and Jane Evans. He played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father"s medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866.
Beecham was the eldest son of Thomas Beecham and Jane Evans. He played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father"s medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866.
He was responsible for Beechams" factory and office in Westfield Street, Saint Helens, being built in 1885. A factory was subsequently opened in New York followed by more factories and agencies in several other countries. Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and was Mayor of Saint Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.
He was made a baronet, of Ewanville in the Parish of Huyton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1914.
He was invested as a Knight of the Order of Street Stanislaus of Russia. Beecham married Josephine Burnett in 1873.