M0003913: Gravestones of Benjamin Jesty (c.1736-1816) and his wife

Reproduction of a photograph of two tombstones in the churchyard at Worth Matravers. Benjamin Jesty (c.1736-1816) was an English farmer noted for his early experiment in using cowpox to induce immunity against smallpox. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

11 April 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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