Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)

Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)

Established c.1899 as a laboratory under the directorship of Dr Walter Dowson. Theoretically independent of Burroughs Wellcome & Company but in practice administered through their head office and carried out some work on company products.

Located at Beckenham, London from 1922.

List of staff as of 1931 given in WAHMM/CO/Wel/B/4, image 2

Symons 1993 says foundation of WPRL was often given as 1894 during Henry Wellcome's lifetime (e.g. in this 1934 exhibition booklet about the WRI) but that is not accurate.

Symons 1993, p3, 26 and 54n2.