# Samuel Jebb > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Jebb > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Jebb.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jebb > Source revision: 1330306015 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Physician and literary scholar (c. 1694–1772)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} '''Samuel Jebb''' ({{c.|1694}} – 9 March 1772) was an English physician, nonjuror and literary scholar. ==Life== He was born about 1694, probably at [Mansfield](/source/Mansfield), [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire), the second son of Samuel Jebb, a maltster, and Elizabeth Gilliver. His eldest brother, Richard, settled in Ireland and was the grandfather of [Richard Jebb](/source/Richard_Jebb_(barrister)), an eminent Irish judge, and [John Jebb](/source/John_Jebb_(bishop)), [Bishop of Limerick](/source/Bishop_of_Limerick). Another brother, [John](/source/John_Jebb_(Dean_of_Cashel)), became [Dean of Cashel](/source/Dean_of_Cashel), and was father of Dr. [John Jebb](/source/John_Jebb_(reformer)), the [Socinian](/source/Socinian).{{sfn|Payne|1892}} Through their maternal ancestors, the Gillivers, the Jebb family would later claim descent from the Dutch statesman [Johan de Witt](/source/Johan_de_Witt). Samuel Jebb was educated at Mansfield grammar school, and became a [sizar](/source/sizar) at [Peterhouse, Cambridge](/source/Peterhouse%2C_Cambridge), on 15 June 1709, aged 15. He graduated B.A. in January 1713.{{acad|JB709S|Jebb, Samuel}} He was intended for the established church, but instead joined the [non-jurors](/source/Nonjuring_schism), being ordained a Deacon in 1716 and a priest in 1718. he later served as a private chaplain to the Cotton family. According to Nichols,'Lit. Anecd.' i. 160. he remained at Cambridge at least till 1718. On leaving Cambridge he became librarian to [Jeremy Collier](/source/Jeremy_Collier) in London, and occupied himself with literary work. After the death of Collier, in 1726, on the advice of [Richard Mead](/source/Richard_Mead), he went into medicine, attending Mead's private practice, and also learning chemistry and pharmacy from Mr. Dillingham, a well-known apothecary of [Red Lion Square](/source/Red_Lion_Square). He took the degree of M.D. at [Reims](/source/Reims) on 12 March 1728, and set up in practice as a physician at [Stratford-le-Bow](/source/Stratford-le-Bow). Successful in following his profession, he continued his literary work. He did not become licentiate of the [Royal College of Physicians](/source/Royal_College_of_Physicians) till 25 June 1751.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} A few years before his death he retired to [Chesterfield](/source/Chesterfield%2C_Derbyshire), [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire), where he died on 9 March 1772. About 1727 he married a relative of Mrs. Dillingham, the apothecary's wife, and left several children, one of whom was the physician, [Sir Richard Jebb](/source/Richard_Jebb_(physician)).{{sfn|Payne|1892}} ==Works== Jebb's literary productions were mainly editions and translations, and he published no original work on medicine. He is best known for his edition of [Roger Bacon](/source/Roger_Bacon)'s ''[Opus Majus](/source/Opus_Majus)''{{Sfn|Bacon,|1733|p=}} undertaken at the suggestion of Richard Mead, to whom it is dedicated. It was the first edition of Bacon's work.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} His major classical work was an edition of the works of [Aristides](/source/Aristides), the Greek rhetorician. In 1720 he issued proposals for its publication (in 4 vols. ); it ultimately appeared in 2 vols. 4to,‘Ælii Aristidis Opera Gr. et Lat. recensuit S. Jebb, Oxonii,’ vol. i. 1722, vol. ii. 1730. with introduction, collation of manuscripts, and notes.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} Jebb published in 1725 a collection of 16 historical memoirs relating to [Mary Queen of Scots](/source/Mary_Queen_of_Scots) in Latin, French, and Spanish.‘De Vita et rebus gestis Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ quæ scriptis tradidere autores sedecim,’ 2 vols. fol. London, 1725. In the same year he issued, anonymously, ''The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots'', London, 1725, a dry narrative. A similar work, ''The Life of Robert, Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth'', London, 1727, is also attributed to him. He edited the posthumous work of [Humphrey Hody](/source/Humphrey_Hody),‘Humph. Hodii de Græcis illustribus linguæ Græcæ … instauratoribus’. with a dissertation on Hody's life and writings, London, 1742.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} In 1722 Jebb started a classical periodical, ''Bibliotheca Literaria, being a collection of Inscriptions, Medals, Dissertations'', intended to appear every two months. Ten numbers were issued from 1722 to 1724. Jebb's own contributions were anonymous.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} His other publications were: *A translation of the reply by Daniel Martin, pastor of the French church at Utrecht, to a tract by [Thomas Emlyn](/source/Thomas_Emlyn) on a theological point, Cambridge(?), 1718; London, 1719. *''Sancti Justini Martyris cum Tryphone dialogus, ed. S. J.'', 1719. *''Joannis Caii De Canibus Britannicis, … De Pronunciatione Græcæ et Latinæ linguæ, etc., ed. S. J.'', 1729.{{sfn|Payne|1892}} ==Bibliography== ===Notes=== {{Reflist|30em}} ===References=== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Bacon,|1733|p=}} |date=1733 |last1=Brother [Roger Bacon](/source/Roger_Bacon) (1219–1292) of the [Order of Friars Minor](/source/Order_of_Friars_Minor) |title=Opus Majus |url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_fratris-rogeri-bacon-or_bacon-roger_1733/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=February 21, 2025 |series=From the manuscript [Codex Dublinensis](/source/Codex_Dublinensis) of Dublin, collated with certain others, now published for the first time |location=London |publisher=Published by Samuel Jebb, M.D. (c. 1694–1772). Printed by [William Bowyer](/source/William_Bowyer_(printer)) |language=latin |via=[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) }} {{free access}} ''See [Opus Majus](/source/Opus_Majus)''. {{OCLC|833937085|show=all}}. {{refend}} ===References (general)=== {{DNB poster|Jebb, Samuel|Samuel Jebb}} *{{DNB|first=Joseph Frank|last=Payne|authorlink=Joseph Frank Payne|wstitle=Jebb, Samuel|volume=29}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jebb, Samuel}} Category:1690s births Category:1772 deaths Category:18th-century British scholars Category:18th-century English medical doctors Category:British literary scholars --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Samuel Jebb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jebb) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Jebb?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.