Duncan Flockhart and Co. (manufacturing chemists)

1816: founded; 1952: T & H Smith bought Duncan Flockhart; by 1960, T & H Smith and J.F Macfarlan merged to form Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals; 1963: the Glaxo Group bought Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals and used the name Macfarlan Smith Ltd. Macfarlan Smith remained part of Glaxo until 1990, when there was a Management Buy Out. 1995: Macfarlan Smith Limited floated on the London Stock Market under the holding company Meconic; 2001: Johnson Matthey plc acquired Meconic; 1995-2005: Wellcome UK Limited (now dissolved) [taken from Science Museum website: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp111588/duncan-flockhart-and-company-limited]