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JEBB, JOHN (1736–1786)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEBB, See also:JOHN (1736–1786) , See also:English divine, was educated at See also:Cambridge, where he was elected See also:fellow of Peterhouse in 1761, having previously been second wrangler. He was a See also:man of See also:independent See also:judgment and warmly supported the See also:movement of 1771 for abolishing university and clerical subscription to the See also:Thirty-nine Articles. In his lectures on the See also:Greek Testament he is said to have expressed Socinian views. In 1775 he resigned his See also:Suffolk See also:church livings, and two years afterwards graduated M.D. at St See also:Andrews. He practised See also:medicine in See also:London and was elected F.R.S. in 1779. Another JOHN JEBB (1775–1833), See also:bishop of See also:Limerick, is best known as the author of Sacred Literature (London, 1820).

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