Richard Claverhouse Jebb

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Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb
John Frederick Peel Rawlinson
Personal details
Born(1841-08-27)27 August 1841
St Giles Cemetery, Cambridge, England
Political partyConservative
Relatives

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb

classical scholar and MP for Cambridge
.

Life

Vanity Fair
in 1904.

Jebb was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert, a well-known Irish barrister, and Emily Harriet Horsley, daughter of the Reverend Heneage Horsley, Dean of Brechin. His grandfather Richard Jebb had been a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). His sister was the social reformer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, founder of the Home Arts and Industries Association.

Jebb in 1873 (far right), Shakespeare Society, Trinity College, Cambridge

Jebb was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin 1853–55 and at Charterhouse School 1855–1858. He then studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge[1] where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual society, from 1859.

Jebb won the

Cambridge University
.

On 18 August 1874, Jebb married

Caroline Lane Reynolds, born in 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, whose first husband had been US Army Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer. After his death in 1868, Caroline had lived briefly in Cambridge.[2]

In 1875 to 1889 Jebb was

Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and the couple initially lived in that city, spending their summers in Cambridge. In 1889 Jebb was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, following the death of the incumbent, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, and the couple moved permanently to Cambridge.[3]

In 1891 Jebb was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, he was knighted in 1900, and he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1902. He received many honorary degrees from European and American universities, and in May 1902 at Caernarfon received the honorary degree of DLitt from the University of Wales during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales (later King George V) as Chancellor of that university.[4] In 1904, he was elected a member to the American Philosophical Society.[5] In 1905, he was made a member of the Order of Merit.

Jebb died at his home, Springfield House

Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground) in the town.[7]
Caroline Jebb died and was cremated in America, her ashes being returned to Cambridge for interment in her husband's grave.

Works

History of Greek literature (Hungarian edition, Budapest, 1894)

Jebb was acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his time, a humanist and an unsurpassed translator from and into the classical languages.[citation needed] A collected volume, Translations into Greek and Latin, appeared in 1873 (ed. 1909).

Jebb's publications include:

  • The Characters of
    JE Sandys
    , 1909)
  • The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (2nd ed., 1893), with companion volume, Selections from the Attic Orators (2nd ed, 1888)
  • Bentley (1882)
  • Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, the promised edition of the fragments being prevented by his death
  • Bacchylides (1905), text, translation, and notes
  • Homer (3rd ed., 1888), an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey
  • Modern Greece[8] (1901)
  • The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry (1893).

His translation of the Rhetoric of

J. E. Sandys (1909). A selection from his Essays and Addresses,[9] and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (with critical introduction by A. W. Verrall) were published by his widow in 1907;[10]
see also an appreciative notice by J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908).

The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a collection of Jebb's papers.

Notes

  1. ^ "Jeb, Richard Claverhouse (JB858RC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Gwen Raverat, Period Piece
  3. ^ Gwen Raverat, Period Piece
  4. ^ "The Royal visit to Wales". The Times. No. 36759. London. 5 May 1902. p. 10.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  6. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
    .
  7. ^ A Guide to Churchill College, Cambridge: text by Mark Goldie, pp. 62, 63 (2009)
  8. ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (24 April 1901). Modern Greece; two lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with papers on 'The progress of Greece' and 'Byron in Greece. Macmillan and Co., Limited – via HathiTrust.
  9. ^ "Review of Essays and Addresses by Sir R. C. Jebb". The Athenaeum (4158): 9–10. 6 July 1907.
  10. ^ "Review of Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O.M., Litt.D. by Caroline Jebb with a chapter by A. W. Verrall". The Athenaeum (4178): 645–646. 23 November 1907.

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cambridge University
1891–1906
With: Sir George Stokes to 1892
Sir John Eldon Gorst from 1892 		Succeeded by
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