Jencken, Ferdinand Edward ♂

Education

M.D. 13.7.1853 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Born 1823. Perhaps son of Johann Ferdinand Jencken, who came to England as physician to Queen Adelaide. [Doctor]

Born blind - operated on for cataract and obtained sight of one eye in 1841

Career

Studied King’s College, London.

L.R.C.P.L. 1853. M.R.C.S.Eng. 1869. L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1870.

Practised Londonderry. [Doctor]

Publications

Vaccination impartially reviewed. Being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association. (London: John Churchill & Sons, 1868)

Death

Died 11.1.1881 aged 58.

Sources

• Med. Dir.
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921