William Jenner

William Jenner, around 1860

Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet FRS (born January 30, 1815 in Chatham , Kent , † December 11, 1898 in Greenwood , Hampshire ) was a British neurologist and doctor . He discovered the difference between abdominal typhus and typhus .

Life

William Jenner studied at University College in London and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (1837) and the Royal College of Physicians (1852). He completed his training as a doctor in 1844 as Doctor of Medicine (MD). In 1847 he began his work at the London Fever Hospital , where he also discovered the difference between typhus (Typhus abdominalis) and typhus (Typhus levissimus or Typhus ambulatorius). In 1849 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at University College London (one of his students there was Sir William Richard Gowers ) and assistant doctor at University College Hospital. There he worked as a doctor from 1854, also in the children's hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital founded in 1852 . In 1860 he received the Holme professorship for clinical medicine . Between 1881 and 1888 he was President of the Royal College of Physicians; In 1864 he was appointed a member of the Royal Society . He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford , the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh . In 1862 he became Queen Victoria's attending physician ; 1863 that of the Prince of Wales and cured him of typhus. On February 25, 1868, he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Harley-Street, Cavendish-Square, in the Parish of St. Marylebone , and County of Middlesex . In 1872 he became Knight Commander and in 1889 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath .

From his marriage to Adela Adey in 1858, he had several children, including his eldest son Walter, who inherited him as 2nd baronet on his death in 1898.

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Individual evidence

↑ The London Gazette : No. 23355, p. 904 , February 25, 1868.

personal data
SURNAME	Jenner, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jenner, Sir William, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chatham , Kent
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1898
Place of death	Greenwood , Hampshire

[1] The London Gazette : No. 23355, p. 904 , February 25, 1868.