William Jenner (1815–98)

Physician. Professor of pathological anatomy at University College, London, 1849; Holme Professor of clinical medicine, 1860. Assistant, then full, physician to University College Hospital, 1849–76; consulting physician, 1879. Physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1861; physician-in-ordinary, 1862. President, Royal College of Physicians, 1881–7. Established, through clinical studies, definitive evidence that typhus and typhoid were different diseases. FRS 1864.