Bust

{On a plaque attached to the front of the plinth:}
Edward Jenner MD FRS, 1749 - 1823
In Jenner’s time smallpox was a dreaded disease worldwide and caused many deaths particularly of children. Survivors were left badly scarred, blinded or deformed. In 1796 Jenner vaccinated James Phipps with coxpox and showed that the boy was then immune to smallpox. He predicted the worldwide eradication of smallpox which was finally achieved in 1980.
Jenner was born, practiced and died in Berkeley Gloucestershire and studied at St George’s Hospital. The statue depicts Jenner holding a model of the vaccinia virus which causes coxpox.

This statue was commissioned by St George’s Hospital Medical School and the Special Trustees of St George’s Hospital in 1996 to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of Jenner’s discovery.

Sculptor: Michael Rizzello, OBE