John Clinch
Rev. Dr. John Clinch was a clergyman-physician credited with being the first man to practice vaccination in North America.Biography
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.
Clinch has also compiled a glossary of the Beothuk language containing over 100 words.
He died in 1819 in Trinity, Newfoundland.
