John Jebb (reformer)

John Jebb (1736–1786) was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer.

[2] He was a man of independent judgement, and he and his wife Ann warmly supported the movement of 1771 for abolishing university and clerical subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles.

He practised medicine in London and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779.

Like Edmund Law and Francis Blackburne, he was an advocate of soul sleep.

[6] He co-founded the Society for Constitutional Information in London in 1780, and was a leading figure in the early 1780s Association movement which pioneered the campaign for parliamentary reform that was carried on by the nineteenth-century Chartists.