John Jebb (Dean of Cashel)

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

John Jebb (died 1787) was an Irish Anglican priest in the second half of the 18th century.[1]

He was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, one of the four sons of Samuel Jebb, a prosperous brewer, and Elizabeth Gilliver. His brothers included the physician Samuel Jebb, father of the Royal Doctor Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet, and Richard, who moved to Ireland and produced a number of distinguished descendants. Through their maternal ancestors, the Gillivers, the Jebb family would later claim descent from the Dutch statesman Johan de Witt.

A graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge,[2] he was Chaplain to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.[3] He was Treasurer of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin from 1740[4] and Dean of Cashel[5] from 1769,[6] holding both posts until his death in 1787.[7]

He married Anne Gansel, daughter of David (or Daniel) Gansel of Donnyland House, Colchester, and had two sons: John Jebb, a political and social reformer and a clergyman noted for his Socinian views, and David. Anne's brother Lieutenant General William Gansel (died 1774) was celebrated in his lifetime as the protagonist in Gansel's case, arising from his shooting at Samuel Lee, who had attempted to evict him from his lodgings. Gansel argued that just as a householder is entitled to defend his dwelling house, so a lodger is entitled to defend his lodgings.[8]

His grandnephew, grandson of his brother Richard,[9] also called John Jebb was Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe from 1823 until 1833.[10]

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  2. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I1. 1209–1751 Vol. ii. Dabbs – Juxton, (1922) p464
  3. ^ "English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien Régime" Clark, J.C.D. p369: Cambridge, CUP ISBN 0521661803
  4. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p63 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  5. ^ "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  6. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp36/7 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  7. ^ Fryde, E. B.; John, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. A . Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 and .). Cambridge: Cambridge University Socinian v. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  8. ^ Williamson, Gillian Lodgers Landlords and Landladies in Georgian London Bloomsbury Academic 2021 p.41
  9. ^ "The life of John Jebb, D.D. F.R.S. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe; with a selection from his letters". 1836.
  10. ^ Forster, Charles (1836). The life of John Jebb, D.D. F.R.S. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. London: James Duncan, and John Cochran. Retrieved 1 July 2018.