"Sandringham. Jan; 1-1872.

Tho' Lady Churchill has taken a message to Col; Ponsonby, the Queen wishes to repeat it & offer every good wish to himself & family & expresses her thanks for his kind & zealous services. - The Queen hopes Col; Ponsonby writes to explain to W. Gladstone about Sir Wm Jenner's K.C.B. & to mention the opinion of Sir J. Paget"

In November, 1871, Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), attended a house party at Londesborough Lodge, near Scarborough, the home of Lord Londesborough.

Shortly after returning to Sandringham House, in Norfolk, the Prince went down with typhoid, and came so close to death that daily bulletins were issued in the newspapers and at police stations around the country concerning his health.

When Charles Blegg, the Prince’s groom, who had gone with his master to Londesborough Lodge, and the Earl of Chesterfield, who had also attended the party, both died of typhoid, it was more than apparent that the house – or, to be more precise, the drains of the house – were the source of the Prince’s illness

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.

Biography

Jenner was born at Chatham on 30 January 1815, and educated at University College London. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (M.R.C.S.) in 1837, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.) in 1852, and in 1844 took the London M.D.

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.

He was elected President of the Epidemiological Society in 1866–1868, of the Pathological Society in 1873–1875 and of the Clinical Society in 1875. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1881 to 1888 where he had delivered the Goulstonian Lectures in 1853.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.) in 1864 and received honorary degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge,[3] and University of Edinburgh. In 1861 he was appointed Physician Extraordinary (Q.H.P.), and in 1862 Physician in Ordinary, to Queen Victoria, and in 1863 Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales; he attended both the Prince Consort and the prince of Wales in their attacks of typhoid fever. In 1868 he was created a baronet.

Gazetted 14th Jan 1872 to K.C.B.

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]

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