Ampicillin was the first of a number of so-called broad spectrum penicillins subsequently introduced by Beecham.

For example, in the 1999 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, both firms ceased to exist when they merged, and a new company, GlaxoSmithKline, was created.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

Priestley had a deep love of classical music, and in 1941 he played an important part in organising and supporting a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which was struggling to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir Thomas Beecham.

" Battlin '" Dan Beecham of Hemet defeated Ronald Arcia of Romoland in a May 14, 1906 bout, and the railroad terminus was awarded to Hemet.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

The orchestra was originally conceived as a joint enterprise by the BBC and the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, but the latter withdrew, and the task of assembling and training the orchestra fell to the BBC's director of music, Adrian Boult.

The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham wrote that for 200 years the chorus was " the national medium of musical utterance " in Britain.

The first near-complete recording of the whole work ( with the cuts then customary ) was conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1928.

It represented an effort by Beecham to " provide an interpretation which, in his opinion, was nearer the composer's intentions ", with smaller forces and faster tempi than had become traditional.

When the Hallé Orchestra announced in 1932 that its regular conductor, Hamilton Harty, was to spend some time conducting overseas, Barbirolli was one of four guest conductors named to direct the orchestra in Harty's absence: the other three were Elgar, Beecham and Pierre Monteux.

In 1949, Sir Thomas Beecham made a series of recordings in Columbia Records ' 30th Street Studios in New York City with a completely different pickup group, which was also called the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

In Delius's native Britain, it was 1907 before his music made regular appearances in concert programmes, after Thomas Beecham took it up.

By 1907, thanks to performances of his works in many German cities, Delius was, as Thomas Beecham said, " floating safely on a wave of prosperity which increased as the year went on ".

Nevertheless, his standing with some continental musicians was unaffected ; Beecham records that Bartók and Kodály were admirers of Delius, and the former grew into the habit of sending his compositions to Delius for comment and tried to interest him in both Hungarian and Rumanian popular music.

Beecham was assisted in the organisation of the festival by Philip Heseltine, who wrote the detailed programme notes for three of the six concerts.

" Beecham, however, records that despite this " fair show of acclaim ", for all the impetus it gave to future performances of Delius's work the event might never have happened ; none of the music was heard again in England for many years.

Delius was much better received in Germany, where a series of successful performances of his works led to what Beecham describes as a Delius vogue there, " second only to that of Richard Strauss ".

For the rest of his lifetime Delius's more popular pieces were performed in England and abroad, often under the sponsorship of Beecham, who was primarily responsible for the Delius festival in October – November 1929.

After Delius's death Beecham continued to promote his works ; a second festival was held in 1946, and a third ( after Beecham's death ) at Bradford in 1962, to celebrate the centenary of Delius's birth.

Beecham had died in 1961, and Fenby writes that it " seemed to many then that nothing could save Delius's music from extinction ", such was the conductor's unique mastery over the music.

Major recordings include the Bach Cello Suites in 1960 ( Paris ) and 1982 ( London ), Elgar's Cello Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult conducting in 1972, and Strauss ’ s Don Quixote with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham conducting in 1947 / 48 and the Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe conducting in 1973 ( all for EMI for whom he was under exclusive contract ).

The LSO was helped to survive by large donations from Sir Thomas Beecham, who also subsidised the Hallé and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Sir Thomas Beecham, who temporarily revived Heseltine's career in 1929

Early in 1929 Heseltine received two offers from Beecham which temporarily restored his sense of purpose.

In 1908 when Sir Thomas Beecham wished to perform the work " Apollo and the Seaman " by the British composer Josef Holbrooke ( who had included parts for several sizes of sarrusophones ), the sarrusophone parts had to be played by performers brought over from France.

Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Thomas Beecham | Beecham, Serge Koussevitzky | Koussevitzky, Willem Mengelberg | Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini | Toscanini, Bruno Walter | Walter, Anton Webern | Webern, Felix Weingartner | Weingartner

For example, in 1928, Beecham conducted a recording of Messiah with modestly sized forces and controversially brisk tempi, although the orchestration remained far from authentic.

Beecham's presentation of A Mass of Life at the Queen's Hall in June 1909 did not inspire Hans Haym, who had come from Elberfeld for the concert, though Beecham says that many professional and amateur musicians thought it " the most impressive and original achievement of its genre written in the last fifty years " Some reviewers, nevertheless, doubted the popular appeal of Delius's music, while others were more specifically hostile.

The first recordings of Delius's works, in 1927, were conducted by Beecham for the Columbia label: the " Walk to the Paradise Garden " interlude from A Village Romeo and Juliet, and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, performed by the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

In 1932 Beecham lost patience and agreed with Sargent to set up a new orchestra from scratch.

In 1932 Beecham lost patience and agreed with Sargent to set up a new orchestra from scratch.

Adapted from the stage show about the flamboyant conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

The Covent Garden Estate was part of Beecham Estates and Pills Limited from 1924 to 1928, after which time it was managed by a successor company called Covent Garden Properties Company Limited, owned by the Beechams and other private investors.

However, a disadvantage of conducting a London orchestra was having to perform at the Festival Hall, of which he shared with Beecham and other conductors an intense dislike: " from the conductor's rostrum it is impossible to hear the violins ".

The programme's opening and closing theme music is " At the Castle Gate ", from the incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande by Jean Sibelius, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.

To fill the now empty cells, a mass transfer from Barnhurst after a riot there had burnt out a cellblock ( and had ended in the off-screen death of Bea Smith ) introduced five new inmates to the series – Nora Flynn ( Sonja Tallis ), a reformed triple murderess, ageing cat burglar May Collins ( Billie Hammerberg ) and her partner in crime, former fence Willie Beecham ( Kirsty Child – who had played a corrupt prison officer who was later incarcerated and murdered in the prison in early episodes ), garden-loving misfit Daphne Graham ( Debra Lawrance ) and shy but highly intelligent thief Julie Egbert ( Jackie Woodburne ).

Horlicks remains popular in Malaysia and Singapore where it packed under licence from SmithKline Beecham and sold in large glass and tin containers.

Heseltine declined an offer from Beecham to participate in the latter's English Opera Company, writing that Beecham's productions and choices of works were increasingly poor and lacking in artistic value ; his own venture would not compromise by pandering to the tastes of the mob.

The Beechams estate in the village draws its name from Sir Thomas Beecham who resided in Mursley Hall which used to exist on the site of this estate.

The musical details and performing editions of Les Troyens used at various productions at the Paris Opéra and by Sir Thomas Beecham and by Rafael Kubelík in London were all the same, the orchestral and choral parts from Choudens et Cie. of Paris, the only edition then available.

They also acquired the nicknames ‘ The Salvation Army ’ and ‘ Beechams ’ ( from Beecham ’ s Pills, a popular cure-all ) because they relieved so many outposts and besieged garrisons.

In 2000, the Wellcome name disappeared from the drug business altogether when GlaxoWellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham, to form GlaxoSmithKline plc.

A number of albums featured Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, including Beecham's 1959 stereo recordings, which were switched from the regular Angel label to the Seraphim one.

After retiring from those chairmanships in 1980 he was chairman of STC and of Beecham.