John Jebb

John Jebb (1736-86), clergyman and political reformer, was a tutor for many years at Peterhouse College, Cambridge; by 1770, however, his theological lectures had become controversial for promoting Socinian views of the nature of Christ and the ‘unity’ of God. He joined with Lindsey and many other Anglican ministers in signing the Feathers Tavern petition in 1772 that would have eliminated the requirement that clergy subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles. Jebb, like Lindsey, resigned from his livings in the church, but instead of becoming a dissenting minister, returned to his earlier love of medicine and spent the final nine years of his life in London practicing medicine.