(1841-1905) Born at Dundee, and educated at St. Columba's College, Dublin, Charterhouse, and Cambridge, at the last of which he lectured on the classics, and was in 1869 elected Public Orator. After being Professor of Greek at Glasgow, he held from 1889 the corresponding chair at Cambridge, and for a time represented the University in Parliament. He was one of the founders of the British School of Archæology at Athens. Among his works are The Attic Orators, An Introduction to Homer, Lectures on Greek Poetry, Life of Richard Bentley (English Men of Letters Series), and he edited the works of Sophocles, and the Poems and Fragments of Bacchylides, discovered in 1896. Jebb was one of the most brilliant of modern scholars.