Emily Harriet Horsley (mother) Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb OM FBA FRSE (27 August 1841 – 9 December 1905) was a British classical scholar and MP for Cambridge.

His sister was the social reformer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, founder of the Home Arts and Industries Association.

On 18 August 1874, Jebb married Caroline Lane Reynolds, born in 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, whose first husband had been US Army Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer.

Jebb died at his home, Springfield House[6] in Cambridge, on 9 December 1905 and was buried at the St Giles Cemetery (now known as the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground) in the town.

A selection from his Essays and Addresses,[9] and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (with critical introduction by A. W. Verrall) were published by his widow in 1907;[10] see also an appreciative notice by J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii.