SIR

See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD CLAVERHOTJSE

See also:

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

JEBB (1841–1905)  , English classical scholar, was born at Dundee on the 27th of August 1841 . His father was a well-known barrister, and his grand-father a judge . He was educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge . He won the Porson and Craven scholarships, was senior classic in 1862, and became fellow and tutor of his college in 1863 . From 1869 to 1875 he was public orator of the university; professor of Greek at Glasgow from 1875 to 1889, and at Cambridge from 1889 till his death on the 9th of December 1905 . In 1891 he was elected member of parliament for Cambridge University; he was knighted in 1900 . Jebb was acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his time, a humanist in the best sense, and his powers of translation from and into the classical languages were unrivalled . A collected volume, Translations into Greek and Latin, appeared in 1873 (ed . 1909) . He was the recipient of many honorary degrees from European and American universities, and in 1905 was made a member of the Order of Merit . He married in 1874 the widow of General A . J .

Slemmer, of the

United States army, who survived him . Jebb was the author of numerous publications, of which the following are the most important: The Characters of Theophrastus (1870), text, introduction, English translation and commentary (re-edited by J . E . 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 (1901); The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry (1893) . His translation of the Rhetoric of Aristotle was published posthumously under the editorship of J . E . Sandys (1909) . A selection from his Essays and Addresses, 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 ; see also an appreciative notice by J . E . Sandys, His'. of Classical Scholarship, iii .

(1908) .