King's College London

King's College, London is part of the federal University of London. King's College was founded in 1829, partly in reaction to the founding of University College London (UCL). UCL was a non-religous insitution, and King's was partly founded to be a protestant college. King's was founded at the request of a King, hence the posessive 's at the end, as opposed to Kings College, Cambridge which denotes multiple Kings.

King's College has swallowed up several other colleges, including Queen's College and will continue to do so given the consolidation of the colleges of the University of London into four 'super colleges' (the others being University College London, Imperial College, London, and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

King's is one of the 'redbrick' Universities although the actual college buildings on the Strand in central London are either ugly concrete or elegant classical.

King's has well over 15,000 students (even before the merger with UMDS) and several famous alumni, including Maurice Wilkins who did work on the structure of DNA which Francis Watson and Mathew Crick used to determine the familiar double helix structure.