JEBB, SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE English classical scholar, was born at Dundee on Aug. 27, 1841, and died at Cambridge, where he was professor of Greek, on Dec. 9, 1905. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity college, Cambridge. In 1891 he was M.P. for Cambridge univeisity, in 1900 he was knighted, and in 1905 he received the Order of Merit. 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 un rivalled. A collected volume, Translations into Greek and Latin, appeared in 1873 (ed. 1909). He married in 1874 the widow of General A. J. Slemmer, of the U.S. army, who survived him.
The following are his chief works : The Characters of Theo phrastus (1870), text, introduction, English translation and com mentary (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), with translation and notes; Bacchylides (1905), text, translation and notes; Homer (3rd ed., 1888), an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey; Modern Greece 0900 ; The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry (1893) ; trans. Rhetoric of Aristotle (ed. J. E. Sandys, 1909).