Jebb, SIR RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE, a great Greek scholar, was born at Dundee, August 27, 1841. The grand-nephew of Bishop Jebb, and on the maternal side the great-grandson of Bishop Horsley, he inherited the traditions of the scholar, and passed with marked distinction through St Columba's College, Dublin, the Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as senior classic in 1862. Soon after he was elected Fellow of his college, and he took a prominent part in organising the system of Inter-Collegiate Classical Lectures, and served as secretary to the newly-founded Cambridge Philological Society. In 1869 he became public orator of the university, in 1872 classical examiner in the university of London, and tutor of his own college, in 1875 professor of Greek in the university of Glasgow, and in 1889 regius professor of Greek at Cambridge. He has received honorary degrees from Edinburgh, Harvard, Cambridge, and Bologna, and was awarded a Greek decoration in 1878. In 1891 he was elected M.P. (Unionist) for Cambridge University. He has actively supported the teaching of modern Greek, and he helped to establish the British School of Archaeology at Athens. Professor Jebb's books are The Characters of Theophrastus
(1870); The Attic Orators: Antiphon to Isæos (2 vols. 1876-80); A Primer of Greek Literature (1877); Modern Greece (1880); Translations into Greek and Latin Verse (1873); Bentley (1882) in the series of 'English Men of Letters'; admirable school editions of the Electra and Ajax of Sophocles; an Introduction to Homer (1887); Lectures on Greek Poetry (1893); and Humanism in Education (1899). But perhaps his most important work is his monumental edition of the plays of Sophocles, with text, commentary, and prose translation, of which the Cambridge Press issued Edipus Tyrannus in 1883, Edipus Colonus in 1885, Antigone in 1888, Trachiniae in 1892, and Electra in 1894. As a scholar Jebb is equally brilliant and accurate; he shows exceptional sanity and sense of proportion, and possesses the gift of writing admirable English. In 1900 he was knighted.