http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/080903-NL-Beecham.html

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Both his grandfather and his father had their wives committed to a mental asylum while they moved in with a mistress. Torn between warring parents, Tommy got married at 24 to a penniless American, Utica Wells, and, while she raised their two sons in a suburban house, took an official mistress, the shipping heiress Lady Cunard, while running a fluid succession of musical paramours.

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Charged by Churchill with spreading British propaganda in the US during the Second World War, he divorced Utica and – to the dismay of Lady Cunard and Dora Labette – married Betty Humby, an English pianist of modest gifts. When she died of cancer, he married in his dotage the RPO’s sometime telephonist, Shirley Hudson.

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His death on March 8, 1961 was blazoned across eight columns of the front page of London’s evening newspaper, such was his popular status. He left an estate worth a paltry £3,499, having spent the pill fortune on music. Utica was by this time reduced to showing day-trippers around their former home at 2/6d (12.5 pence) a head.