page_title: George S. V. Wills
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: George S. V. Wills / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: George Wills habitat map from tbe Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica (1886)&#160;: Foldout map of the geographical habitat of all the plants used in the British Pharmacopoeia. Includes list of plants indigenous to Great Britain.
context_page_description: George Sampson Valentine Wills was a chemist and pharmacist and the founder of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, an institution which prepared students for examinations set by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, founded in 1841.
context_section_description: In October 1874 Wills founded the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, initially located in his house at 133 St George's Road, Lambeth, London. Students of the college took the examination of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, founded in 1841.
  By 1877 the college was able to make the claim that it was the largest school of its kind in London. In addition, its students had achieved almost as many examination passes as all the other schools in England put together.
  In 1880 Wills published a book titled Elements of Pharmacy.
  In 1882, as his student body expanded, Wills moved Westminster College into new premises, a defunct Baptist chapel in Trinity Street, Southwark.
  In 1899 Wills self-published a memoir titled The Works of George S. V. Wills and The Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
caption: George Wills habitat map from the Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica (1886)
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