Royal Veterinary College
The London Veterinary College opened in Camden Town in 1791 — a French émigré, Charles Vial de Sainbel, was its first professor — making it the oldest veterinary school in the English-speaking world. The Camden campus still trains students beside the canal; a second campus at Hawkshead, in Hertfordshire, houses the hospitals and research herds.
The College joined the University of London in 1949 and remains the smallest member of this guide's federation, but its standing is not small: it is regularly ranked among the world's top veterinary schools, and its hospitals — including Europe's largest small-animal hospital — treat the capital's animals while teaching the next generation to do the same.
Field notes
- Royal by grant since 1875; the 'Royal' in the name predates the veterinary degree itself.
- Its graduates have served the royal mews and stables since the nineteenth century.
- The Camden anatomy museum is open to students and, by arrangement, to the curious.
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In brief — from the field guide
The oldest veterinary school in the English-speaking world, founded in Camden Town in 1791. Its graduates have attended the royal stables, the Queen's corgis and the average London fox with equal professionalism.
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