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George Webb Sandford – President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1863–1869, 1870-1871, and 1879-1880

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Description

Portrait in oils of George Webb Sandford (1813–1892), President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1863–1869, 1870-1871, and 1879-1880.
Painted by John Prescott Knight (1803-1881), RA, in 1870. Framed.
Sandford was President of the Pharmaceutical Society from 1863–1869, and again in 1870-1871 (he resigned during this term of office over the Poison Regulations as then proposed under the Pharmacy Act, 1868), and finally in 1879-1880.
He is recognised as making a major contribution to the framing of the Pharmacy Act, 1868 in the favour of pharmacists.

Fact

The portrait’s name plate reads: ‘GEORGE WEBB SANDFORD / President of / The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain / From June 1863 to June 1869 / Painted by subscription and presented to the Society to commemorate / Passing of the Pharmaceutical Act, 1868.’