John Jebb (bishop)
John Jebb (7 September 1775 – 9 December 1833) was an Irish churchman and writer.

Biography
He was born in Drogheda, younger son of John Jebb senior, an  alderman  of  the town of Drogheda, and Alicia  Forster. His father  had an estate at  Leixlip  in County Kildare: his grandfather Richard Jebb had  come to Ireland from Nottinghamshire.  His father was in reduced financial circumstances for  a time, but  later recovered his fortunes, and at his death in 1796 left John  £2000. He was  educated at the local school in Celbridge,  then at Free Grammar School, Derry (later renamed Foyle College, now part of Foyle and Londonderry College) where he formed a lifelong friendship with the theologian  Alexander Knox,    and  at Trinity College Dublin.

Ordained in 1799, he became curate of Swanlinbar, County Cavan; and in 1801 of Mogorbane, County Tipperary. In 1805 he  became private chaplain to  Charles Brodrick,  Archbishop of Cashel, and in 1809  he became rector of Abingdon, County Limerick, where his curate  was Charles Forster, his lifelong friend and first biographer.   He spent some time in England, where he became a friend  of William Wilberforce and of Hannah More.  In 1812 he was seriously injured in a carriage accident; the injuries were poorly treated by his medical advisers,  and he  probably never fully  recovered his health.

In 1821 he became  archdeacon of Emly. For his services in maintaining order in the district of Emly  during the disturbances that followed the outbreak of famine  in the west of Ireland in 1822, he was made Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in that year. As bishop,    he is credited with raising the  academic standard for candidates for holy orders: he often  quoted an old saying that candidates might deceive him about their Godliness, but not about their scholarship.

In 1827 he had a stroke, which left him largely incapacitated physically,  and afterwards he  spent his time in various places in England, devoting himself to writing, in particular the celebrated correspondence with his friend Alexander Knox, for which he is chiefly  remembered.   He favoured the High Church  approach to ritual and is regarded as a forerunner of the Oxford Movement.  He died  unmarried in East Hill, near Wandsworth, Surrey. He was remembered as a man of great   learning, and a churchman of strong convictions and broad sympathies. His close friend Charles Forster published his Life of  John Jebb in 1836.

Richard Jebb,  justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) (1766-1834)  was his elder brother. Richard was the father of John Jebb (1805-1886), canon in residence  of Hereford Cathedral.

Works
Sermons (London, 1815)
Sacred Literature (1820)
Practical Theology (2 vols., 1830)
Biographical Memoir of William Phelan (1832)
His correspondence with Alexander Knox was edited by C. Forster (2 vols., 1834).