Henry Jellett (gynaecologist)

Henry Jellett (1872–1948) was an eminent Irish Gynaecologist, and author.

Educated at the University of Dublin, he was later Professor of Midwifery there. During World War I he was Commandant of the Munro Ambulance Corps in Northern Flanders and was Mentioned in Despatches, also winning the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne de Belgique and the Croix de Guerre, Française (with two stars). When peace returned he was consultant at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin from 1910 to 1919. Later he was consultant obstetrician to the New Zealand Department of Health. He died on 8 June 1948.

His father, also called Henry Jellett, was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin from 1889 until his death in 1901.