John Jebb (canon)

John Jebb (21 September 1805 in Dublin – 8 January 1886 in Peterstow, Herefordshire) was an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest and writer on church music.

Jebb married Frances, daughter of General Sir Richard Bourke, in September 1831 (she died in 1866).

With his cathedral background Jebb argued that in churches with a choir, the desired musical effect should not be marred by "the roar of the congregation".

[citation needed] He persuaded Hook to adopt the cathedral form of service at Leeds rather than the alternative model demonstrated by the Revd Frederick Oakeley at Margaret Chapel, London, in 1839, where the choir’s role was to lead the congregation in response, hymn and psalm.

St Peter's Church at Peterstow was restored in the 1860s under Jebb with Sir George Gilbert Scott as architect.