Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet M.D. (1729–1787) was an English physician. He was noted for his success as a society doctor and royal physician. Richard Jebb Zoffany

Life

The son of

Samuel Jebb Samuel Jebb ( – 9 March 1772) was an English physician, nonjuror and literary scholar. Life He was born about 1694, probably at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the second son of Samuel Jebb, a maltster, and Elizabeth Gilliver. His eldest brother, ...

, he was born at

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, being baptised there on 30 October 1729. He entered at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1747, but as a nonjuror could not graduate, and went to

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, where he graduated M.D. 23 September 1751. Jebb took rooms in

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, and was admitted a licentiate of the

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, on 24 March 1755. He was physician to

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from 1754 to 1762, when (7 May) he was elected physician to

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. He went to Italy to attend the

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, and became a favourite of

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, who granted him a crown lease of

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, 385 acres of

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. He built a small house on it, enclosed it with a fence, and kept deer. In 1771 Jebb was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 1774 he delivered the

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. He was censor for the College in 1772, 1776, and 1781. He was created a baronet on 4 September 1778, and was Fellow of the

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and

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. By 1768 he had resigned his hospital appointment to concentrate on private practice, and in the three years, 1779–81, his fees amounted to twenty thousand

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s. In 1780 he was appointed physician to the Prince of Wales, and in 1786 to the king. Trent Park House in Spring - geograph

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and Charles Churchill were among Jebb's friends, and he paid for the education of Churchill's son.

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was a critic, but his professional reputation was high.

Death

In June 1787, while attending two of the princesses, Jebb was attacked by fever. He was attended by

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and

Henry Revell Reynolds Henry Revell Reynolds (26 September 1745 – 22 October 1811) was an English physician. Life He was born in Laxton, Nottinghamshire, the son of John Reynolds, one month after the death of his father, and was brought up by his maternal great-un ...

, but died at 2 a.m. on 4 July 1787 at his house in Great George Street, Westminster. He was buried in the west cloister of

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.'The Abbey Scientists' Hall, A.R. p17: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966 He left much of his estate to his young Irish cousin and namesake Richard Jebb, who later became a distinguished High Court judge.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jebb, Richard 1729 births 1787 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen English Jacobites 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain