Joseph Beecham

Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (8 June 1848 – 23 October 1916) was a British businessman.

He played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father's medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866.

The increasing demands placed on him by his father's business meant he had to step down from his position as the parish organist of St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead.

Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a justice of the peace for Lancashire and was mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Thomas, who had been knighted in his own right earlier in 1916 for his services to music as an orchestral conductor.