SirRichardClaverhouseJebb (August 27, 1841 - December 9, 1905) was a British classical scholar and politician.
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.
A selection from his Essays and Addresses, and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of SirRichardClaverhouseJebb (with critical introduction by A.
SIRRICHARDCLAVERHOUSEJEBB (1841-1905), English classical scholar, was born at Dundee on the 27th of August 1841.
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 selection from his Essays and Addresses, and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of SirRichardClaverhouseJebb (with critical introduction by A. Verrall) were published by his widow in 1907; see also an appreciative notice by J. Sandys, Hist.
His father was a landowner in Wales and Shropshire and his uncle, SirRichardClaverhouseJebb, was a renowned classical scholar, historian and MP - the identities of the two Richards were sometimes confused.
In 1911 Jebb published the two-volume The Imperial Conference (the Jebb Papers include a draft of a third volume), in which he argued for the need to turn the conference into a permanent body to develop foreign and economic policy.
Some 180 volumes from the library of the Greek scholar SirRichardClaverhouseJebb (1841-1905).
In a distinguished academic career, Jebb was lecturer of classics at Trinity College Cambridge (1863-1875), Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (1875-1889), and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge (1889-1905).
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Contributed to the Journal of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; articles on Richard Bentley (1662-1742) and Richard Porson (1759-1808) for the Dictionary of National Biography; and a chapter on `The Classical Renaissance' for the Cambridge Modern History, i (1902).
Sir John Sandys re-edited Characters of Theophrastus (1909) and prepared for the press Jebb's translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric (1909).
Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, holds correspondence, 28 notebooks and literary manuscripts of Jebb, 1859-1905.
