Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy

Westminster College flourished in the late nineteenth century but faced growing competition from public institutions in the 1920s and 1930s, and it closed around 1942.

By 1877, three years after its foundation, Westminster College was able to make the claim that it was the largest school of its kind in London.

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

This financial failure caused the voluntary liquidation of Westminster College, despite it being registered as a limited company in 1901.

In 1939, at the outbreak of war, the threat of air attacks led the College to discontinue day classes in favour of correspondence courses.