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Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb may refer to: * Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet (1729–1787), English physician * Richard Jebb (barrister) (1766–1834), Irish judge *Richard Jebb (journalist) Richard Jebb (1874 – 25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. Life Jebb was born in 1874. His parents were cousins Eglantyne Louisa (born Jebb) and Arthur Trevor Jebb. His sister Lo ... (1874–1953), English journalist and author * Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), British classical scholar and politician {{hndis, Jebb, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet M.D. (1729–1787) was an English physician. He was noted for his success as a society doctor and royal physician. Life The son of Samuel Jebb, he was born at Stratford, Essex, being baptised there on 30 October 1729. He entered at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1747, but as a nonjuror could not graduate, and went to Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.D. 23 September 1751. Jebb took rooms in Parliament Street, London, and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, on 24 March 1755. He was physician to Westminster Hospital from 1754 to 1762, when (7 May) he was elected physician to St. George's Hospital. He went to Italy to attend the Duke of Gloucester, and became a favourite of George III, who granted him a crown lease of Trent Park, 385 acres of Enfield Chase. He built a small house on it, enclosed it with a fence, and kept deer. In 1771 Jebb was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 1774 he del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jebb (barrister)
Richard Jebb (1766–1834) was an Anglo-Irish judge of the nineteenth century.Ball F. Elrington ''"The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921"'' London John Murray 1926 p.340 He was a member of a gifted family of English origin, which produced a celebrated doctor, three distinguished clerics, and a noted classical scholar.Ball p.185 Background He was born in Drogheda, eldest son of John Jebb and his second wife Alicia Forster. His father was an alderman of Drogheda, and also had an estate at Leixlip in County Kildare; his grandfather, the elder Richard Jebb, had emigrated to Ireland from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Richard's great-grandfather was a prosperous brewer. Richard's younger brother was John Jebb, Bishop of Limerick. The two brothers were very close throughout their lives, and John, who never married, lived with Richard as a young man. Their father suffered serious financial losses, but Richard at the age of twenty-one inherited a substantial fortune from his father's cousin S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jebb (journalist)
Richard Jebb (1874 – 25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. Life Jebb was born in 1874. His parents were cousins Eglantyne Louisa (born Jebb) and Arthur Trevor Jebb. His sister Louisa (Wilkins) established the forerunner of the Women's Land Army during the first world war. Another two of his sisters Eglantyne and Dorothy (became Buxton) co-founded the children's international development agency Save the Children.Clare MulleyThe Woman who Saved the Children, Oxford: Oneworld, 2009, p. xix-xx. Jebb was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb. He went to school at Marlborough College followed by New College, Oxford. During the First World War, Jebb was a captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
