My chosen exemplar is Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Edward Jenner is the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine during the eighteenth century which saved many lives at that time and still till this day. Jenner has been widely known as the ‘father of immunology’. Jenner’s publication of his findings that cowpox could protect against the fatal disease, smallpox, gotten him support by the scientific community. Jenner was also promoting vaccination among the poor. Jenner went on to form many scientific societies and later he become a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789. In 1812, Jenner become an active Freemason, serving as Master of the Royal Lodge of Faith and Friendship, No. 270, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Edward Jenner went beyond his medical work
