Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH, was an English conductor and impresario. He founded the London Philharmonic and the RoyalPhilharmonic orchestras. He used his access to the family fortune to finance opera from the 1910s until the start of the Second World War. He died in 1961 and is buried in St Helens, Lancashire, where he was born in 1892.