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JEBB, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD CLAVERHOTJSE (1841–1905) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Dundee on the 27th of See also:August 1841. His See also:father was a well-known See also:barrister, and his See also:grand-father a See also:judge. He was educated at See also:Charterhouse and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He won the See also:Porson and See also:Craven scholarships, was See also:senior classic in 1862, and became See also:fellow and See also:tutor of his college in 1863. From 1869 to 1875 he was public orator of the university; See also:professor of See also:Greek at See also:Glasgow from 1875 to 1889, and at Cambridge from 1889 till his See also:death on the 9th of See also:December 1905. In 1891 he was elected member of See also:parliament for Cambridge University; he was knighted in 1900. Jebb was acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his See also:time, a humanist in the best sense, and his See also:powers of See also:translation from and into the classical See also:languages were unrivalled. A collected See also:volume, See also:Translations into Greek and Latin, appeared in 1873 (ed. 1909). He was the recipient of many honorary degrees from See also:European and See also:American See also:universities, and in 1905 was made a member of the See also:Order of Merit. He married in 1874 the widow of See also:General A. J.

Slemmer, of the See also:

United States See also:army, who survived him. Jebb was the author of numerous publications, of which the following are the most important: The Characters of See also:Theophrastus (1870), See also:text, introduction, English translation and commentary (re-edited by J. E. See also:Sandys, 1909) ; The See also:Attic Orators from See also:Antiphon to See also:Isaeus (2nd ed., 1893), with See also:companion volume, Selections from the Attic Orators (2nd ed., 1888) ; See also:Bentley (1882) ; See also:Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, the promised edition of the fragments being prevented by his death; See also:Bacchylides (1905), text, translation, and notes; See also:Homer (3rd ed.,1888), an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey; See also:Modern See also:Greece (1901); The Growth and See also:Influence of Classical Greek See also:Poetry (1893). His translation of the See also:Rhetoric of See also:Aristotle was published posthumously under the editorship of J. E. Sandys (1909). A selection from his Essays and Addresses, and a subsequent volume, See also:Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (with See also:critical introduction by A. W. Verrall) were published by his widow in 1907 ; see also an appreciative See also:notice by J. E. Sandys, His'. of Classical Scholarship, iii.

(1908).

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