Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet M.D. (1729–4 July 1787) was an English physician. He was noted for his success as a society doctor and royal physician. Life The son of Samuel Jebb, he was born at Stratford, London, 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 Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.D. on 23 September 1751.

Jebb took rooms in Parliament Street, London, and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, on 24 March 1755. He was physician to Westminster Hospital from 1754 to 1762, when (7 May) he was elected physician to St. George's Hospital. He went to Italy to attend the Duke of Gloucester, and became a favourite of George III, who granted him a crown lease of Trent Park, 385 acres of Enfield Chase. He built a small house on it, enclosed it with a fence, and kept deer. By 1768 Jebb had resigned his hospital appointment to concentrate on private practice, and in the three years, 1779–81, his fees amounted to twenty thousand guineas. In 1780 he was appointed physician to the Prince of Wales, and in 1786 to the king. He left much of his estate to his young Irish cousin and namesake Richard Jebb, who later became a distinguished High Court judge.