Frank Harris Fulford

Born in Canada in 1868, Fulford was educated in Leipzig then he returned to Brockville, a city in Eastern Ontario, where he worked as a dealer in music.

[2] The company produced patent medicines, manufacturing products including Bile Beans and Zam-Buk ointment, and was first established in the UK in 1899 after achieving success in Australia.

[3] The company undertook an unsuccessful court action, and a later appeal, against an Edinburgh pharmacist in 1905 but it continued to trade and prosper despite the judge opining that the business was "founded on, and conducted by fraud".

[4] A year later after the sudden death of his wealthy brother, Charles, Fulford took up the reins of the family business.

[1] A founder member of Leeds Art Collections Fund, Fulford was also a collector of Chinese jade and other objet d'art.