Date of honorary Fellowship admission: 20 May 1806
Jenner was born 17 May 1749 in Berkeley to Rev. Stephen Jenner. His early medical education involved training under an apothecary and, later, physicians including John Hunter, with whom he trained as a private pupil, before he obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1792. Jenner is best known for proving that vaccination against smallpox using cowpox successfully creates immunity, which he first documented in 1796. Jenner published three works on the vaccine from 1798-1800, which were translated into multiple languages. The vaccine had immediate importance in medical care and was adopted throughout the world as well as amongst the British army and navy. He died in Berkeley on 25 January 1823.
