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three. Jenner's feelings were deeply wounded by the manner in 

 which this grant was made, and he would gladly have repudiated 

 the whole affair. It remained unpaid for two years, and when at 

 length the money was paid to him, it was so loaded with taxes and 

 other expenses, as to be of little pecuniary benefit. Happily, how- 

 ever, both for Jenner and the credit of Great Britain, the Marquis 

 of Lansdowne (then Lord Henry Petty) was a principal mover in 

 his second parliamentary grant, and through the able advocacy of 

 this enlightened nobleman, together with Mr. Whitbread, Mr. 

 Windham, and Mr. Edward Morris and others, a more fitting re- 

 compense of 20,000., free of all charges, was awarded him in July 

 1807. 



Jenner had several attacks of severe illness during his life, but he 

 notwithstanding attained to a good old age. Till the last day of 

 his life he was occupied in the most anxious labours to diffuse the 

 advantages of his discovery both at home and abroad ; and he had 

 the satisfaction of knowing that vaccination had even then shed 

 its blessing over every civilised nation of the world, prolonging life, 

 and preventing the ravages of one of the most terrible scourges to 

 which the human race was ever subject. He died suddenly from 

 an attack of paralysis in July 1823, having attained the seventy- 

 fifth year of his age. 



Shortly after Jenner's death a statue was erected to his memory 

 in Gloucester Cathedral, chiefly through the exertions of his friend 

 and biographer, Dr. Baron ; still more recently the statue in bronze, 

 by William Calder Marshall, R.A., was erected in Trafalgar Square, 

 and afterwards removed to Kensington Gardens, as a 'TRIBUTE 

 FROM ALL NATIONS' to the memory of this distinguished phi- 

 lanthropist. Life of Edward Jenner, by John Baron, M.D., &c. 

 London, 1827. Memoir by Dr. Thos. Lay cock, Encyclopaedia Bri- 

 tannica. 



WILLIAM JESSOP. 



Born 1745. Died 1814. 



This engineer forms the connecting link between the first and 

 second generations of civil engineers in this country. To the 

 former belong Smeaton and Brindsley, while the latter are headed 

 by the great names of Telford and Rennie. 



The father of Mr. Jessop was engaged under Smeaton in super- 

 intending the erection of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and his son 



