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Article: At the Sign of the Plough: Allen and Hanburys and the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 1715-1990.
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- Business History
- Article date:
- January 1, 1992
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The origins and early days of the business which became Allen & Hanburys - in the Quaker apothecary's shop established by Silvanus Bevan at Plough Court - are well-known from earlier and more hagiographical works. Dr Tweedale recounts them in a fresh and vivid fashion, setting the story of the extension of the apothecary's business into the manufacture of the galenical remedies of the time in the context of the contemporary scientific research.
The firm, both as a partnership and after its incorporation as a private company in 1893, benefited greatly from its connection, established initially by marriage, with members of the Hanbury family who supplied a ...