Apothecaries Timeline - The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

2017

Society’s 400th Anniversary. Two academic Faculties, seven Diplomas and five courses including an International Advanced Assessment Course are flourishing

2005

Society founds the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine

2003

Final award of the LMSSA (formerly the LSA)

1995

Sir John Chalstrey is Master Apothecary and Lord Mayor

1994

Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes starts

1978

Diploma in the Philosophy of Medicine established

1970

Diploma in the History of Medicine established

1962

Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence introduced

1959

Society founds the Faculty of History of Medicine later expanded to the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy

1948

National Health Service Introduced

1946

Diploma of Industrial Health introduced

1941

Second World War – Hall survives the Blitz largely unscathed

1928

Society institutes a new examination, the Mastery of Midwifery.

1921

Society’s Laboratory and pharmacy shop finally close

1917

Agatha Christie passes the Assistants’ Examination (equivalent to a Pharmacy Technician)

1915

Nobel Prizewinner and malaria pioneer Sir Ronald Ross LSA, awarded the Honorary Freedom of the Society

1914

Great War

1911

Sir Thomas Boor Crosby becomes Master Apothecary and Lord Mayor

1899

Society passes responsibility for the Physic Garden to City Parochial Foundation

1865

Elizabeth Garrett (Garrett Anderson) becomes the first woman to gain the LSA

1841

Pharmaceutical Society (later the Royal Pharmaceutical Society) formed

1833

Christopher Penfold, passes the LSA and later founds Penfolds wines in Australia

1822

United Stock founded which supplied medicines to the Army

1816

John Keats, poet, gains the LSA

1815

Apothecaries’ Act passes into law giving the Society the power to grant a licence (the LSA) to practice medicine

1806

Barge used at Nelson’s funeral

1766

Stock company contracted to supply drugs to the East India Company.

1765

Third barge built

1745

Company of Surgeons, later the Royal College of Surgeons, is separated from the Barbers’ Company by Act of Parliament

1727

Second barge built

1722

Physic Garden at Chelsea conveyed to the Society “in perpetuity” by Sir Hans Sloane

1705

“Navy Stock” company founded in the Hall. It supplies medicines to the navy including for Captain Cook’s expedition to Australia

1704

Rose Case confirms the right of Apothecaries to give medical advice

1688

Glorious Revolution. William of Orange lands at Torbay

1673

Chelsea Physic Garden established

1672

Elaboratory established. The “Laboratory Stock” joint stock company is founded to make and sell medicines.

1670

Hall Rebuilt After The Fire

1666

Great Fire of London

1665

Great Plague in London – Most Apothecaries stay in London and treat the sick

1642

City sides with Parliament and the Hall is garrisoned by Parliamentary troops

1632

Society buys “Cobham House” the former guest house of Blackfriars Priory as its first Hall

1617

After representations from a group of apothecaries led by De Laune, James I & VI grants a Charter separating the Apothecaries from the Grocers

1607

Separate section of Apothecaries created in the Grocers’ Company

1588

Spanish Armanda defeated

1565

Birth of Gideon de Laune, primary founder and benefactor of the Society

1540

Company of Barbers and Surgeons of London created by Act of Parliament

1538

Dissolution of the Dominican Priory of Blackfriars by Henry VIII.

1518

Henry VIII grants a Charter to the College of Physicians

1376

Pepperers become the Company of Grocers St Anthony

1345

Pepperers found the Fraternity of St Anthony

1328

Spicers join with the Pepperers

1316

A “Mistery“or Guild of Apothecaries elects their own leaders in London

1180

Guild of Pepperers first recorded

1130

Earliest records of Livery Companies or “Guilds” in London