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Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Benjamin Jesty by Michael William Sharp, 1805. Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736 – 16 April 1816) was a farmer at Yetminster in Dorset, England, notable for his early experiment in inducing immunity against smallpox using cowpox.
Little else is known of his early life. In March 1770 he married Elizabeth Notley (1740–1824) in Longburton, four miles north-east of Yetminster. The couple lived at Upbury Farm, next to Yetminster church, and the couple had four sons and three daughters.
Jul 14, 2021 · By 1798 he had conducted experiments on 23 children and, following support from his colleagues and the king, was awarded vast sums by parliament - first £10,000 in 1802, then a further £20,000...
Sep 29, 2020 · During a smallpox epidemic in the west of England in 1774, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to try something. He scratched some pus from cowpox lesions on the udders of a cow into the skin of his...
It was William Pead and J Barge who were then inoculated with smallpox by Henry Jenner. Brief mention is made of ‘a farmer named Jesty’. This was Benjamin Jesty 4 of Yetminster in Dorset who devised and performed cowpox vaccinations against smallpox at Chetnole, near Yetminster in 1774.
- Patrick J Pead
- 2014
Jenner was preceded nearly a quarter of a century before by the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty who vaccinated his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Robert and Benjamin, in the spring of 1774. Jesty was born in the village of Yetminster, near Sherborne in the north of the county.
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Though intended primarily as an academic reference resource, Benjamin Jesty, the Grandfather of Vaccination forms an enjoyable read for the general public. It tells a fascinating story of an historic figure who deserves greater recognition.
