Margo Drummond

Here's to Your Health Margo Drummond

"That's meat and drink to me (from Shakespeare's As You Like It) was the adopted slogan for Horlikc's, a health product that became known internationally, a product that likely was one of the first processed foods ever invented. From their childhood spent in the bucolic village of Ruardean, brothers James and William Horlick would go on to know a world of riches and royalty, of luxury and leisure, a world which, as the 19th century gave way to the 20th, would offer them experiences and opportunities beyond all imagining. As with their product, the lives of James and William Horlick would take on global dimensions. Here is the story of how it all happened.