George S. V. Wills

George Sampson Valentine Wills (14 February 1849 – 28 April 1932) 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.

George Sampson Valentine Wills was born on 14 February 1849 in the village of Roade in Northamptonshire, England.

[1] 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.

[2] In 1882, as his student body expanded, Wills moved Westminster College into new premises, a defunct Baptist chapel in Trinity Street, Southwark.

George Sampson Valentine Wills died at 5 Lessar Avenue, Clapham Park on 28 April 1932, aged 84.

George Sampson Valentine Wills, English chemist
Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Trinity Street, Southwark. From the Prospectus and syllabus of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, London, 1901.
George Wills habitat map from the Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica (1886)