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Plaque Text
REVEREND JOHN CLINCH, M.A. - 1749 - 1812 Born in England, this medical and missionary pioneer came to Newfoundland in 1775 and later settled in Trinity (1783) where he died. He is noted for introducing the Jenner vaccine to British North America (1800) and for compiling a valuable glossary of Beothuck terms.
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