[1] Through their maternal ancestors, the Gillivers, the Jebb family would later claim descent from the Dutch statesman Johan de Witt.
Samuel Jebb was educated at Mansfield grammar school, and became a sizar at Peterhouse, Cambridge, on 15 June 1709, aged 15.
[2] He was intended for the established church, but instead joined the non-jurors, being ordained a Deacon in 1716 and a priest in 1718. he later served as a private chaplain to the Cotton family.
[1] Jebb published in 1725 a collection of 16 historical memoirs relating to Mary Queen of Scots in Latin, French, and Spanish.
[6] In the same year he issued, anonymously, The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots, London, 1725, a dry narrative.
[1] In 1722 Jebb started a classical periodical, Bibliotheca Literaria, being a collection of Inscriptions, Medals, Dissertations, intended to appear every two months.