Dr Francis Thomas Bond (1833–5 December 1911)

British physician & vaccination advocate. A strong advocate of vaccination of infants as a means to eradicate smallpox. Born in Plymouth, Devon. Bond founded The Jenner Society in 1896 to mark the 100th anniversary of Jenner's first vaccination. In 1873 he was appointed first medical officer of the Gloucestershire Combined Sanitary District. In 1897 as honorary secretary of The Jenner Society, he published in the British Medical Journal a declaration by public officers of health on the value of vaccination. In 1889 he established a school of dairying at Gloucester in association with the Bath and West of England Society. Bond was an advocate of the consumption of cheese for its nutritional and flavoursome qualities and of skipping with a rope as an unsurpassed form of home gymnastics. Dr Bond died at home aged 78, 5 days after collapsing at Gloucester Railway Station.