William Jenner"Physic" Jenner as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1873
Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet, GCB, QHP, FRCP, FRS (30 January 1815 – 11 December 1898) was a significant English physician primarily known for having discovered the distinction between typhus and typhoid.
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, publishing his book "On the Identity or Non-Identity of Typhoid and Typhus Fever" in 1850. 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 consulting physician (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 London.[2][1]
As a consultant, Sir William Jenner had a great reputation, and he left a large fortune when he died, at Bishops Waltham, Hants, on 11 December 1898, having then retired from practice for eight years owing to failing health.[2] He had married in 1858 Adela Lucy Leman, the daughter of Stephen Adey, with whom he had five sons and a daughter.[1] His son, Leopold, was a decorated Army officer of the First World War.[4]
Coat of arms of Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet
Crest
On a mount Vert a lamp of three branches Argent suspended by three chains Or fired Proper.
Escutcheon
Per chevron Azure and Or in chief two estoiles of the last and in base a serpent nowed proper all within a bordure Ermine.