Henry Stebbing

[1] On Lady day 1713 he resigned his fellowship on being presented to the parish of Lower Rickinghall in Suffolk, and on 31 May 1726 he was instituted rector of Garboldisham in Norfolk.

On 14 July 1731 he was elected preacher to the Society of Gray's Inn, and in the following year was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the king.

He has also been credited with an anonymous satire entitled ‘The Fragment,’ published at Cambridge in 1751, which assailed several leading statesmen and ecclesiastics of the time.

He was formally one of the Consecrated of the Honourable Society, in Gray's Inn in London, to which duty he diligently devoted himself for almost twenty years as a most skilful Orator.

In Controversies, in which he was very well practiced, he always conducted himself in such a manner that he both was, and was thought of the best company, a vigorous, accomplished, intrepid Defender of the Christian Religion and the Anglian Church.

He was the author of a collection of ‘Sermons on Practical Subjects,’ London, 1788–90, published by his son, Henry Stebbing, a barrister, with a memoir.