John Clinch
Poet, Deceased Person
1749 – 1819
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Who was John Clinch?
Rev. Dr. John Clinch was a clergyman-physician credited with being the first man to practise vaccination in North America.
He was born in Cirencester, England, one of twin children of Thomas Clinch of Bere Regis. In 1798 he gave the first smallpox vaccines at Trinity, Newfoundland. Clinch had attended school in Cirencester with Edward Jenner and both had then studied medicine under John Hunter. He died in 1819 in Trinity, Newfoundland.
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