Dr Edward Jenner FRS
(1749-1823)

scientist, discoverer of vaccination, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Died aged c. 74

Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. In the West, Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have saved "more lives than any other man". In Jenner's time, smallpox killed around 10% of the population, with the number as high as 20% in towns and cities where infection spread more easily. In 1821, he was appointed physician to King George IV, and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace. A member of the Royal Society, in the field of zoology he was among the first modern scholars to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo (Aristotle also noted this behaviour in his History of Animals). In 2002, Jenner was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

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Near this site stood the vicarage where Dr Edward Jenner discoverer of vaccination against smallpox was born May 1747

Marybrook Street, Berkeley, United Kingdom where they was born (1749)

In a house on this site Dr. Edward Jenner 1749-1823 discoverer of vaccination, practised medicine

Jenner House, St George’s Place, Cheltenham, United Kingdom where they practised medicine

Edward Jenner 1749-1823 discoverer of vaccination lived here

Alpha House, St George’s Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom where they lived

Edward Jenner 1749-1823 was married in this church to Catherine Kingscote 6th March 1788. His work in connection with the introduction of vaccination has made him ever dear to the human race. His marriage brought him much happiness

parish church at Kinsgscote, Cheltenham, United Kingdom where they married (1788)

Edward Jenner FRS (1749-1823) Born in Berkeley, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine and father of immunology attended Cirencester Grammar School here c.1757-64, during which time he developed his interests in natural history and fossil hunting. Jenner is often credited with saving more lives than any other person in history. The first record of Cirencester's grammar school is from 1242, when a 'magister scholarum Cyrencestrie' is recored in a lawsuit. In 1457 the school received a principal grant from John Chedworth, Bishop of Lincoln. This building, a medieval hall and solar, was the school from c.1534 until 1880.

The Old School, Park Lane, Cirencester, United Kingdom where they attended school (1757-1764)