Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., Litt. D.: With a Chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as Scholar and Critic by Dr. A. W. Verrall

Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the outstanding British classical scholar of the second half of the nineteenth century. This memoir, published by his widow in 1907, gives a rounded picture of the man chiefly remembered today for his editions of the plays of Sophocles, but who was also instrumental in founding the British Schools of Archaeology in Athens and Rome and the British Academy, and who as a Member of Parliament for Cambridge University played a significant part in the politics of ...