Misplaced Pages

#91908

54-545: The Veterinary College of London was founded in 1791 by a group led by Granville Penn , a grandson of William Penn , following the foundation of the first veterinary college in Europe in Lyon , France, in 1762. The promoters wished to select a site close to the metropolis, but far enough away to minimise the temptations open to the students, who were all men. Earl Camden was just then making arrangements to develop some fields he owned to

108-642: A 2000 book, and described by a third party as "the first post of its kind in the UK"; however a search of the RVC website in August 2020 does not reveal any mention of Vestey or such a chair. The London BioScience Innovation Centre was opened in 2001. The Learning Resource Centre (Eclipse Building) was officially opened at Hawkshead by the Queen in October 2003. The Large Animal Clinical Centre

162-560: A few years to implement his own version of Sainbel's original scheme. The Veterinary College, London opened its doors to pupils at the beginning of 1792. In 1834 Penn succeeded his brother, John Penn , in the estates of Stoke Park, Stoke Poges , Buckinghamshire , and Pennsylvania Castle, Portland . In 1836, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . He died at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire , on 28 September 1844. In 1791 he had married Isabella,

216-824: A foundation degree in veterinary nursing is also offered. The college also offers the Gateway course; the first year of an extended six-year veterinary degree programme, created for students who are part of the UK Widening Participation cohort. It is designed to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to join a career-building veterinary degree course. This is a widening participation programme for UK non-selective state school students whose parents have not been to university and who receive, or would have been eligible between 2004 and 2010 in England, to receive an Education Maintenance Allowance payment. There

270-473: A friend's cold store. The invention of the first ammonia-compression plant enabled refrigerated shipments, and their business grew. The first expansion was into China, in the early 20th century, where the company developed a huge egg processing enterprise. Creating their own shipping company, the Blue Star Line , they supplied outlets in the UK, USA, Europe and South Africa for over fifty years. In 1911,

324-576: A number of events throughout the year. In the past, these have included a May Ball , Christmas Ball and Sports Ball, as well as a Halfway Dinner (which takes place in the second term of third year for students on the BVetMed course), Burns Night , an elaborate Freshers' Week and Raising and Giving (RAG) Fortnight. The union itself is steadily growing and includes representatives of the Association of Veterinary Students and IVSA; based out of Hawkshead House on

378-672: A year to socialise, network and compete. Sports Weekend was last held at the RVC in 2016, and Congress in 2019. RVC students are also invited to participate in societies run by other universities in London; the University of London Union offers a selection of sports and societies, as does the Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union , and students tend to take advantage of these opportunities as well as being involved in RVC societies. The Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 ranked

432-472: Is a distance learning department and the Graduate School provides masters courses, PhD studentships and clinical training scholarships in a wide range of disciplines. The college's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Unit is a major academic provider of educational services to the veterinary community. The RVC has an e-Media Unit which collaborates with other UK veterinary schools on the development of

486-578: Is a privately owned UK group of companies comprising an international business focused mainly on food products and services. The company has owned vast holdings overseas, mainly in South America and Australia, and continues to own some. The Vestey family were estimated to be the second wealthiest family in Britain (after the King ) in 1940. Vestey Brothers was the largest privately owned multinational company and

540-404: Is in sourcing, processing and distribution of products made from meat, fish, seafood , dairy products , fruit and vegetables, and convenience foods . It trades in 70 countries, with customers in the retail, food service, wholesale , government and manufacturing sectors. The 3rd Baron Vestey (19 March 1941 – 4 February 2021), great-grandson of co-founder William Vestey (later Lord Vestey),

594-447: Is said that by 1930 Vesteys had 30,000 employees worldwide and a net value of £300,000. The Vestey family were estimated to be the second wealthiest family in Britain (after the King) in 1940. In 1980, it was discovered that the company had operated a tax avoidance scheme, and Vestey Brothers was the largest privately owned multinational company and the largest retailer of meat in the world in

SECTION 10

#1732844536092

648-581: Is the great-great-grandson of co-founder Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet . As of 2020 , the Vestey family’s farming interests are mainly in Brazil, in both the cattle industry and sugar cane production. A 12,000-hectare (30,000-acre) tree-planting programme is set to supply eucalyptus wood to the iron ore industry in Brazil. The family also has two wine companies in Australia: The Lane Vineyard in

702-725: The Adelaide Hills of South Australia , and Delatite Wines in Victoria, Australia . William and his younger brother Edmund (later Sir Edmund) established the Vestey empire in 1897 from a family butchery business in Liverpool . They were pioneers of refrigeration , opening a cold store in London in 1895 and developing stores across the UK, and then throughout Russia, the Baltic nations , and Western Europe. The company supplied large quantities of food to

756-630: The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals , Bolton's Park Farm and the Buttery (a second union-run bar). The college now provides a number of undergraduate courses, including the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVetMed) as well as accelerated graduate entry BVetMed and a combined BVetMed, Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BSc) degree. BSc degrees are also provided in veterinary nursing, bioveterinary sciences, biological sciences and veterinary pathology, and

810-765: The University of London . In 1958 the Hawkshead field station, in Hertfordshire, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II . In the 1980s the Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust was launched with the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as patron, and the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals was opened at Hawkshead by the Queen Mother. Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, and Chancellor of

864-513: The WikiVet site. Students are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular activities both inside and outside of the college authority. The traditional sports of rowing, rugby, netball, hockey, and football are offered for both men and women; more unusually, students take part in sports such as shooting, ice-skating, and polo. For purpose of sports, the RVC is a part of the United Hospitals , and

918-473: The 1980s. In the course of their expansion, Vestey bought a number of other companies, acquiring Oxo and London's Oxo Tower through the purchase of the Liebig Extract of Meat Company . In the middle of the 20th century, Vestey companies dominated the UK wholesale and retail meat trade, selling refrigerated and canned meats, as well as leather and other by-products. Having saved cash reserves for

972-583: The Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED Centre), opened in 2008. Animal Welfare and the Animal Welfare unit situated at the college are fundamental to the RVC's research mission and underpins their research programmes. The Structure and Motion Laboratory of the college also has facilities to study locomotion. Understanding how animals and people move is fundamental to musculoskeletal health and diseases that result from ageing, physical activity and

1026-698: The College after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 came into force. The first women were admitted in 1927. In 1924 the Research Institute in Animal Pathology was built, headed by Professor John McFadyean . Various extensions were added to the Camden Town site over the years. The buildings had become obsolete and in 1927 were officially declared dangerous structures. A fund-raising scheme for

1080-806: The East Kimberley region of Western Australia from investor Sam Copley . In 1914, they established the North Australia Meat Company in Darwin, Northern Territory in Australia, but it failed after three years. In the same year, it bought the 3,000 km (1,200 sq mi) Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory of Australia. In 1915, the brothers, after being refused a request for income tax exemption made to David Lloyd George , moved to Buenos Aires to avoid paying income tax in

1134-465: The Hawkshead Campus, it provides social and academic opportunities for students of all cohorts and courses. A 'Camden vs. Hawkshead' competition, traditionally taking place between pre-clinical and clinical students, is traditionally held in spring each year. Since 2018, a 'varsity' weekend has also taken place between the RVC and the veterinary school at the University of Surrey ; the inaugural event

SECTION 20

#1732844536092

1188-878: The New Testament. He also wrote some theological works particularly related to Biblical chronology (past and future) and the early history of post-Flood mankind. In 1833 he wrote the Life of Admiral Sir William Penn , on his great-grandfather. His major work as a scriptural geologist was A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, published in 1822. Penn added a supplement in 1823 in response to Buckland's theory on Kirkdale Cave, and then revised and enlarged it to two volumes in 1825 in response to criticisms. Like most Scriptural geologists, Penn, whose name became indelibly associated with Scriptural geology, participated only transiently with it during his career. For example, between

1242-554: The RVC as England's best veterinary school of those institutions whose research is exclusively veterinary related. 55% of their submitted academic staff were viewed as producing "world class" or "internationally excellent" research. It is a self-governing college within the University of London and its scientists work together in interdisciplinary teams within one research division. The disciplines of Epidemiology, Microbiology, Pathology, Immunology and Clinical Science are drawn together in

1296-714: The RVC runs the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital, a first-opinion hospital based at the RVC's Camden campus, and the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals , an animal referral hospital which provides clinical services in a wide range of specialities. The equine services include the Equine Practice which is a first opinion ambulatory service, serving Hertfordshire and other local areas and the Equine Referral Hospital which provides referral clinical services to equine practices and horse owners throughout

1350-462: The UK. The family later administered the business through a Paris trust that enabled it to legally avoid an estimated total of £88m in UK tax until the loophole was closed in 1991. In 1924, Vesteys bought the Liebig Extract of Meat Company in Uruguay, created Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay out of it, which marketed Fray Bentos meat extract spread . also known as the "Anglo Meatpacking Company". It

1404-501: The University of London, opened the surgical wing of the Sefton Equine Referral Hospital. The bicentenary celebrations were held in 1991. The skeleton of the famous racehorse Eclipse, dissected in 1789 by St. Bel was once more the property of the RVC and was placed on display in the museum at Hawkshead. Geoffrey Mead was appointed to the " Vestey Chair of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health" in 1992, mentioned in

1458-748: The Vestey brothers expanded into meat production , processing and distribution, with pastoral properties as well as meatworks in Venezuela, Australia and Brazil, and meatworks in New Zealand and Argentina. In the UK, they bought market stalls on the Smithfield Market in London, and butcher shops throughout the UK, the Dewhurst the Butchers chain. In 1912 they purchased for £250,000 the Ord River cattle station in

1512-713: The Wave Hill walk-off) at Wave Hill. This was a landmark event in the land rights movement in Australia and lasted for eight years. With much public support, the Whitlam government entered negotiations with Vestey and a small grant of land at Daguragu/Wattie Creek was handed back to the Gurindji people , as an initial step towards the final land handback. The first two ships for the Blue Star Line ( Pakeha renamed Broderick , and Rangatira renamed Brodmore ) were bought in 1909, and

1566-595: The college was threatening their livelihoods, but the college argued that poor people could not afford veterinary fees, therefore their animals would go untreated if the Clinic were closed. The college celebrated its centenary in 1891 and in that year the Students' Union was founded. In 1895 the first X-ray machine was acquired. There was a major renovation in 1907 of the college horse boxes, which had fund-raisers' commemorative shields hung at their doorways. Women were admitted to

1620-677: The company registered on 28 July 1911 in London and Liverpool with a capital of £100,000. In 1946 the Vesteys also became founders of Repremar Shipping, a Uruguay-based ship agency which was then taken over a few decades later by the Pena family, who to this day remain in control of the Repremar Group of Companies. The line owned a number of refrigerated ships ( Reefers ), and business later expanded to countries as far apart as Egypt and China, carrying passengers in addition to various foodstuffs. Blue Star

1674-563: The eldest daughter of General Gordon Forbes at All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames ; they had four sons and five daughters. Penn, fluent in French, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and wrote several books dealing with Biblical criticism and published a number of competent translations of ancient Greek works, including a critical revision of the English version of

Royal Veterinary College - Misplaced Pages Continue

1728-560: The elements and pollution. The business also owned the Downsway supermarket group, which was based in East Anglia and had 80 stores at the time of its sale to rival Fine Fare in 1978. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Vestey Group had acquired a large amount of grazing land in Australia, and used many Aboriginal Australians as cheap labour. They were paid less than a quarter of

1782-810: The environment. The leaders of this Centre of Excellence are at the forefront of developing technologies to study animal movement, which are used in both basic and applied research. The RVC has a Clinical Investigation Centre, co-ordinating disciplined study of its clinical caseload through its electronic patient record system and undertaking Phase II Clinical Trials under a Home Office license. They aim to translate research into solutions for veterinary and human medicine and use their expertise and veterinary patient caseload to undertake comparative research of both biomedical and veterinary significance. The RVC runs three animal hospitals and three first opinion practices, all based in London and Hertfordshire . The hospitals treat over 20,000 patients per year. For small animals,

1836-410: The first horse was admitted for treatment in 1793. St Bel died later that year and was succeeded by Edward Coleman , who managed the college for nearly forty six years and established its reputation. Among the first students were Delabere Pritchett Blaine and Bracy Clark . In its early years it was mainly concerned with horses, but the range of animals covered gradually increased. The original building

1890-655: The growing UK population during the Industrial Revolution . William Vestey earlier worked in stockyards in Chicago in the late 19th century, and realised that the meat waste could be used in products which were then in short supply in Britain. He and Edmund started a canning business, before foreseeing that the meat could be worth even more if the vast supplies of beef in the Americas could be transported and delivered fresh rather than canned, so they first experimented with

1944-803: The largest retailer of meat in the world in the 1980s. In 1980, it was discovered that the company had operated a tax avoidance scheme, Union International , formerly the core of the Vestey family business as the Union Cold Storage Company , entered receivership in 1995. The company has been restructured several times. As of August 2020 Vestey Holdings owns Vestey Foods , Albion Fine Foods & FineFrance UK , Cottage Delight , Donald Russell ( butchers ) and Western Pension Solutions . Vestey Foods (incorporated 16 November 1994) owns Vestey Foods UK, Vestey Foods Benelux, Vestey Foods France, Vestey Foods International, Vestey Foods Baltics, and Vestey Foods Middle East. The company's main business

1998-566: The main bulk of the RVC Student Union (RVCSU), including the main college bar, the Haxby. The Hawkshead Campus is located in Brookmans Park , rural Hertfordshire , about 17 miles (27 km) north of central London, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1959. The majority of the college sports teams train and play on the sports courts and fields at this campus, which is also home to

2052-473: The minimum wage of non-Indigenous workers and sometimes only received salt beef , bread, tobacco , flour, sugar and tea instead of a salary. Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey , through the company, owned the Wave Hill Station in Australia at the time. In 1966, this unfair treatment, coupled with earlier dispossession of their land by the colonial government, sparked the Gurindji strike (also known as

2106-506: The north of London, and he replied to the college's newspaper advertisement for a suitable site with an offer to sell it some of his land. The site was rural, but urban developments appeared on all sides in the early decades of the 19th century, creating Camden Town . Charles Benoit Vial de St Bel of the Lyon establishment was appointed as the first principal of the new college. The first students, just four of them, began their studies in 1792, and

2160-615: The other near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire . On the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine course, students spend two years in Camden followed by three years in Potters Bar. The 1930s buildings on Royal College Street in Camden Town, near St Pancras railway station remain, with minor extensions. Around half of the undergraduate students are based there at any one time. The Camden campus is also home to

2214-585: The production of his book when he was 62 and his death in 1844 he focused on philological scholarship. Penn wrote that "The science of Geology … has this remarkable character above all the preceding physical sciences; that, it not only conducts the intelligence, like them, to the discernment of the God of Nature, but advances it further, to a distinct recognition of that God of Nature in the God of Scripture." Vestey Holdings Vestey Holdings , formerly Vestey Group and previously also known as Vestey Brothers ,

Royal Veterinary College - Misplaced Pages Continue

2268-456: The purpose, they entered into a price war with the US-owned importers to largely drive them from the UK market. Vestey developed the country-wide Dewhurst the Butchers chain, which was eventually sold in 1995 in the face of increasing competition from the supermarket chains. Dewhurst was among the first retailers to introduce glass windows in its butcher's shops – previously meat had been exposed to

2322-602: The south of England. The RVC operates a referral farm animal hospital at its Hawkshead Campus, which provides full hospitalisation, diagnostic and surgical facilities for individual farm animals. The college has a collaboration with the Dairy Development centre, the Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre (WRVC), which provides a farm health investigation service to vets and farmers in the South Wales region. 51°32′12″N 0°08′02″W  /  51.5368°N 0.1340°W  / 51.5368; -0.1340 Granville Penn Granville Penn (9 December 1761 – 28 September 1844)

2376-461: The sports clubs compete (and sometimes socialise) with the London medical schools (such as Barts , ICSM , and RUMS ). There are also a number of academically inclined clubs, such as the Farm Animal Clinical Club, the Student Equine Veterinary Association, and the Zoological Society. Non-academic societies include the Music Society, performing arts, games society, and the International Veterinary Students' Association (IVSA). The Students' Union runs

2430-404: The total rebuilding of the college was launched by the new principal, Professor Sir Frederick Hobday . In 1932 the Beaumont Animals' Hospital opened. New buildings were opened by King George VI in November 1937. During the Second World War, the RVC evacuated to Streatley , Berkshire , although the Beaumont Animals' Hospital remained open at Camden Town. In 1949 the RVC became a school of

2484-413: The war department. In the period from 1788 Penn played a part in the development of veterinary education. A supporter of the Odiham Society, he met Charles Benoît Vial de Sainbel who was in England for the second time to try to set up a veterinary school, such as existed at Lyon ; and whose profile was raised when he was asked to dissect the famous racehorse Eclipse . Penn ran a successful campaign over

2538-434: Was Chairman of the Vestey Group from 1995 until his death in 2021. George Vestey has been CEO of Vestey Holdings since 2010, and his brother Robin Non-Executive Chairman since 2013 (after becoming a main board director after their father Edmund ’s retirement in 2004). The family was still immensely wealthy in 2015; 160th on the Sunday Times Rich List 2015, with an estimated fortune of £700 million. Actor Tom Hiddleston

2592-402: Was a great-grandson of Admiral Sir William Penn , a British author, and scriptural geologist . He was born 9 December 1761 in Spring Gardens, London, the second surviving son of Thomas Penn and his wife, Lady Juliana Fermor Penn , fourth daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret . He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford , but did not complete his degree. He then became an assistant clerk in

2646-405: Was a quadrangle in a neoclassical style, and there was a paddock on the opposite side of Royal College Street , but this was later sold for housing development. In 1796 John Shipp was the first qualified veterinary surgeon to join the British Army. The college first acquired royal patronage from King George IV . In 1844 it was awarded a royal charter. In 1865 RVC Professor James Beart Simonds

2700-439: Was appointed as the first Chief Inspector and Veterinary Advisor to the Privy council, with particular regard to cattle plague. In 1875 college was granted a royal charter as the Royal Veterinary College; it remains the only veterinary college in the UK to have its own royal charter. In 1879 the Cheap Practice Clinic was established, later known as the Poor People's Out-Patients Clinic. Some veterinary surgeons were concerned that

2754-449: Was broken up, and separate companies created to run farming, cold storage, and food import and distribution businesses. In Venezuela in 2005, state troops occupied a cattle ranch owned by the Vestey Group, under a 2001 land use reform programme instituted by the Hugo Chávez government. In March 2006, the Group reached an agreement with the Venezuelan government, ceding two ranches to the state while retaining ownership of eight. There

SECTION 50

#1732844536092

2808-405: Was finally sold to P&O Nedlloyd for £60 million in 1998, although most of the refrigerated ships were retained by Vestey's Albion Reefers subsidiary, which later merged with Hamburg Süd to form Star Reefers, finally sold off in July 2001. The company had to be rebuilt twice, in the years following the world wars, before being sold in 1998. By 2000, the vertically integrated model

2862-461: Was hosted at Surrey but won by the RVC. Students on the BVetMed course are invited to attend events organised by the Association of Veterinary Students (AVS) such as Sports Weekend (where the schools compete against each other in unisex football, rugby, netball, and other games) and the annual academic Congress. These allow veterinary students from the UK veterinary schools and the University College Dublin veterinary faculty to convene once or twice

2916-431: Was officially opened by Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh in October 2003. In 2005 the Duchess of Cornwall visited the Hawkshead Campus as new Patron of the Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust. The LIVE Centre at Hawkshead was officially opened by The Princess Royal in February 2007. Stuart Reid was appointed principal of the RVC in late 2010. The RVC has two campuses, one in Camden in Central London and

#91908