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Authorised form of nameJebb; John (1736 - 1786)
Dates1736 - 1786
Place of birthIreland
Date of birth16 February 1736
Place of deathBunhill Fields, London
Date of death02 March 1786
ActivityEducation:
AB (1757), AM (1760) Peterhouse College, Cambridge; MD (1777, St Andrew's); LCP (1777)
Career:
Ordained; Lecturer in Theology, Cambridge University; resigned from Church of England and became a Unitarian; took up medicine
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/02/1779
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
Notes:
Munk gives birthplace as London
CodeNA5488
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1778/25Jebb, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/391/189Bond of John Jebb to the Treasurer of the Royal Society25 February 1779
L&P/8/146Letter, 'Of a stag's head and horns found in turf at Alport, Derbyshire' from Robert Barker to John Jebb23 January 1785
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