Richard Jebb (barrister)

[1] He was a member of a gifted family of English origin, which produced a celebrated doctor, three distinguished clerics, and a noted classical scholar.

[1] His father was an alderman of Drogheda, and also had an estate at Leixlip in County Kildare; his grandfather, the elder Richard Jebb, had emigrated to Ireland from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.

Like many former opponents of the Union, he was prepared to accept office under the new regime, although he refused to sit in the English House of Commons.

[3] He died suddenly at his home in Rostrevor, County Down in 1834, a victim of the first great cholera epidemic in nineteenth-century Europe.

Elrington Ball calls him a gifted man who, like his brother Bishop Jebb, was often underestimated by those who knew him, due to his modest and unassuming manner.