Jebb

Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, was born at Dundee in 1841. He went to school at Dublin and afterwards at Charterhouse, and was senior classic at Cambridge in 1862. He soon became fellow of Trinity, and in 1869 was appointed public orator. In 1875 he became professor of Greek at Glasgow University, and in 1889 he succeeded Dr. Kennedy in the same chair at Cambridge. His chief works are editions of the Attic orators (1876) and of the plays of Sophocles (1883), a life of Bentley ("English Men of Letters"), and Modern Greece (1880). He became M.P. for Cambridge University in 1890.