biography
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Boot, Sir Jesse, Baron Trent
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1850–1931)
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| biography:
| Drug manufacturer, born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. At 13 he inherited his father's herbalist shop, and in 1877 opened his first chemist's shop in Nottingham. He began large-scale drug manufacture (1892), and soon after the beginning of the 20th-c was controlling the largest pharmaceutical retail trade in the world, with over a thousand branches by 1931. He was made a peer in 1929. |
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