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词条 Frank Harris Fulford
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Frank Harris Fulford was an entrepreneur, art collector and businessman. 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.{{r|Bradford}} He married sometime before 1902 and had three children.{{r|Bradford}} An older brother to Charles Edward Fulford, he moved to Leeds, in England, during 1902 to manage the British division of Charles's manufacturing business, C. E. Fulford Limited.{{r|Yorkshire Post}} 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.{{r|Corley}} 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".{{r|BMJ1905}} A year later after the sudden death of his wealthy brother, Charles, Fulford took up the reins of the family business.{{r|Bradford}}{{efn|Charles Fulford died in 1906, aged 36 years, leaving an estate valued at £1.3 million,{{r|Bequest}}{{r|Will}} around £{{Inflation|UK|1300000|1906|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}}} He purchased Headingley Castle, Leeds, in 1909 and it became the family's main residence.{{r|Bradford}}

A love of music remained a constant factor in Fulford's life; he had been a skilled viola player from a young age and he composed the music for the Bile Bean March, part of the marketing campaign of the company, in 1898.{{r|Bradford}} While studying in Leipzig he began collecting modern and classical chamber music from all over the world; the collection was donated to the library at Leeds University in 1936{{r|Yorkshire Post}} after ill health meant he was unable to play instruments.{{r|Bradford}}

A founder member of Leeds Art Collections Fund, Fulford was also a collector of Chinese jade and other objet d'art.{{r|Yorkshire Post}} He donated several items to be displayed in the Blue Drawing Room at the Temple Newsam museum in 1939.{{r|Yorkshire Post}}

Fulford died at Headingley Castle, Leeds, in August 1943.{{r|Yorkshire Post}} His wife, Lily,{{r|Wife}} and a daughter, Frances,{{r|Marriage}} survived him;{{r|Yorkshire Post}} his estate amounted to more than £198,000.{{r|Yorkshire}}{{efn|£{{Inflation|UK|198000|1944|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}}} A son, Jack, predeceased him in 1940.{{r|Yorkshire Post}}

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1. ^{{citation |title=Bile Beans |journal=British Medical Journal |date=30 September 1905 |volume=2 |issue=2335 |pages=825–826 |jstor=20286808 }}
2. ^{{cite web |last=Bradford |first=Eveleigh |url=http://www.northleedslifegroup.com/2014/04/17/they-lived-in-leeds-frank-harris-fulford-1868-1943-businessman-musician-patron-of-the-arts/ |title=They Lived In Leeds |publisher=northleedslifegroup.com |accessdate=15 February 2015 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6WPETLPMm?url=http://www.northleedslifegroup.com/2014/04/17/they-lived-in-leeds-frank-harris-fulford-1868-1943-businessman-musician-patron-of-the-arts/ |archivedate=17 February 2015 |deadurl=no |df= |mode=cs2}}
3. ^{{citation |last=Corley |first=T. A. B. |title=Interactions between the British and American Patent Medicine Industries 1708–1914 |journal=Business and Economic History |year=1987 |volume=16 |page=125 |jstor=23702630 |issn=0894-6825}}
4. ^{{citation |newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=9 June 1927 |title=Headingley Families United |page=6 |issue=24933 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19270609/183/0006 |via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes}}
5. ^{{citation |newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=20 August 1943 |page=2 |issue=29959 |title=Deaths |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19430820/020/0002?browse=false |via=British Newspaper Archive |subscription=yes}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33084123 |title=NOTES FROM LONDON. |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Western Argus |volume=XIII, |issue=628 and 629 |location=Western Australia |date=1 January 1907 |accessdate=18 May 2017 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}
7. ^{{citation |newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=19 July 1944 |page=3 |title=Latest wills |number=30242 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19440719/073/0003?browse=false |subscription=yes |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
8. ^{{citation |newspaper=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=20 August 1943 |number=16484 |page=5 |title=Death of Mr F. H. Fulford |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000273/19430820/071/0005?browse=false |subscription=yes |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
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