BART

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• SIR

SIR

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• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

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• JENNER, EDWARD (1749-1823)
• BART SIR WILLIAM JENNER

JENNER  . (1815-1898), English physician, was born at Chatham on the 3oth of January 1815, and educated at University College, London . He became M.R.C.S. in 1837, and F.R.C.P. in 1852, and in 1844 took the London M.D . In 1847 he began at the London fever hospital investigations into cases of " continued " fever which enabled him finally to make the distinction between typhus and typhoid on which his reputation as a pathologist principally rests . In 1849 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at University College, and also assistant physician to University College Hospital, where he afterwards became physician (1854-1876)and consultingphysician (1879), besides holding similar appointments at other hospitals . He was also successively Holme professor of clinical medicine and professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College . He was president of the college of physicians (1881-1888) ; he was elected F.R.S. in 1864, and received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh . In 1861 he was appointed physician extraordinary, and in 1862 physician in ordinary, to Queen Victoria, and in 1863 physician in ordinary to the prince of Wales; he attended both the prince consort and the prince of Wales in their attacks of typhoid fever . In 1868 he was created a baronet . As a consultant Sir William Jenner had a great reputation, and he left a large fortune when he died, at Bishop's Waltham, Hants, on the 11th of December 1898, having then retired from practice for eight years owing to failing health .