John Jebb (reformer)

For other people named John Jebb, see John Jebb (disambiguation).

John Jebb (1736–1786) was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer.

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Life

He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow of in 1761,[1] having previously been Second Wrangler at Cambridge in 1757.[2] He was a man of independent judgement and he and his wife Ann warmly supported the movement of 1771 for abolishing university and clerical subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. In his lectures on the Greek Testament he is said to have expressed Socinian views. In 1775 he resigned his Suffolk church livings, and two years afterwards graduated M.D. at St Andrews. He practised medicine in London and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. He and Ann continued to be involved in political reform.

Views

Like Edmund Law and Francis Blackburne (archdeacon) he was an advocate of soul sleep.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Dyer, George. History of the University and colleges of Cambridge. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9p3qHytrRrYC&dq=senate%20house%20cambridge&lr=&as_brr=1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=senate%20house%20cambridge&f=false. 
  2. ^ John Jebb (reformer) in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  3. ^ Anthony Page John Jebb and the Enlightenment origins of British radicalism p68

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