JOHN

See also:

• JOHN JEBB (1736–1786)
• JEBB, SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOTJSE (1841–1905)

JEBB (1736–1786)  , English divine, was educated at Cambridge, where he was elected fellow of Peterhouse in 1761, having previously been second wrangler . He was a man of independent judgment and warmly supported the movement of 1771 for abolishing university and clerical subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles . In his lectures on the Greek Testament he is said to have expressed Socinian views . In 1775 he resigned his Suffolk church livings, and two years afterwards graduated M.D. at St Andrews . He practised medicine in London and was elected F.R.S. in 1779 . Another JOHN JEBB (1775–1833), bishop of Limerick, is best known as the author of Sacred Literature (London, 1820) .