The History of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

LDRPS: LSA7, 19th Century. This gold and white specie jar would have been used for decoration, rather than to store materials. The Jar is decorated with the coat of arms of the Pharmaceutical Society

Introduction

Founded as the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 180 years ago in 1841, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society supports the pharmacy profession not just in Great Britain but around the world.

But where did the Society come from?

Who founded it?

And how has it changed and grown into the RPS of today?

In the Beginning

What was pharmacy like before the founding of the RPS?

The Founding of the Society

The Founding of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Finding a Headquarters

The Society found a Headquarters at 17 Bloomsbury Square in London

To be a Member?

Who would or could join the new Society?

The RPS Today

Today the RPS supports pharmacists in the different aspects of their practice

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Stuart Anderson, Briony Hudson, Selina Hurley and the British Society for the History of Pharmacy for supporting this exhibition.