Simplify the following text for a Grade 4 native English-speaking person.
Original: Beecham was born in St Helens , Lancashire , in a house adjoining the Beecham 's Pills laxative factory founded by his grandfather , Thomas Beecham .
Simplified: Beecham was born in 1879 in St. Helens , Lancashire in the north of England . Beecham was self-taught as a conductor .