John Jebb

John Jebb (7 September 1775 – 9 December 1833) was an Irish churchman and writer.

Biography John Jebb was born in Drogheda, younger son of John Jebb senior, an alderman of the town of Drogheda, and his second wife Alicia Forster. His father had an estate at Leixlip in County Kildare: his grandfather Richard Jebb had come to Ireland from Nottinghamshire. He was educated at the local school in Celbridge, then at Free Grammar School, Derry where he formed a lifelong friendship with the theologian Alexander Knox, and at Trinity College Dublin.

Works Sermons (London, 1815) Sacred Literature (1820) Practical Theology (2 vols., 1830) Biographical Memoir of William Phelan (1832) His correspondence with Alexander Knox was edited by C. Forster (2 vols., 1834). Piety without asceticism, or, The Protestant Kempis (1846)