Edward Jenner - PIONEER OF VACCINATION

By Linda Hansford 

 

Last month it was announced that ‘Vax’ has been chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.  ‘Vax’ was first recorded in English in 1799.
 
Birth
 
Edward Jenner was a native of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, born on 17 May 1749,
8^th of 9 children of the vicar of Berkeley, Stephen Jenner and his wife, Sarah.  Jenner was orphaned when he was 5 and was brought up by an older brother, also a clergyman.