D. Wemyss Jobson was a medical physician, who was at one time surgeon-dentist to 'Her Majesty, The Late King and His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex' (cover of Essay on Pleuro-Pneumonia : Its Symptons and Treatment, 1865). In addition to other works on medicine and dentistry, Jobson also published some historical works and a social commentary on the clubs of London. His writing was published in England in the 1840s-1850s and in Melbourne during the 1860s.
His only creative work appears to be the 1864 collection of verse, A Metrical Version of the Sermon on the Mount. In an introduction to this work, Jobson explains some part of the course of his life in Scotland where he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for the publication of libellous verses about a Scots Baronet - the charge of which he declared himself innocent. It was during his time in gaol that Jobson undertook the metrical version of about one third of the contents of the Old and New Testaments.
