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    John Jebb (1736–1786) was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer. Jebb was the son of John Jebb, Dean of Cashel, a member...
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  • John Jebb may refer to: John Jebb (Dean of Cashel) (died 1787), Irish Anglican priest John Jebb (reformer) (1736–1786), son of the latter, English clergyman...
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    Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (8 May 1793 – 26 June 1863) was a British officer of the Royal Engineers who participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain...
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  • Ann Jebb (née Torkington; 1735–1812) was an English political reformer and radical writer who published on both political and theological topics. She was...
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    grandfather Richard Jebb had been a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). His sister was the social reformer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, founder of the...
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  • Gansel of Donnyland House, Colchester, and had two sons: John Jebb, a political and social reformer and a clergyman noted for his Socinian views, and David...
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  • Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet, a distinguished doctor who became physician to King George III. John Jebb, the clergyman and religious reformer, was another...
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  • Margaret's first job was at the Boys' Employment Registry with Eglantyne Jebb (founder of the Save the Children charity in 1919), later setting up a similar...
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    places of temporary confinement.[citation needed] The most notable reformer was John Howard who, having visited several hundred prisons across England...
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  • Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (née Jebb; 1845/1846 - November 1925) was an Anglo-Irish social reformer. A keen supporter of the Arts and Crafts movement, in 1884...
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  • inspired renewed interest in liturgical music within the Church of England. John Jebb first drew attention to Merbecke's Prayer Book settings in 1841. In 1843...
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    (died 1803) with David Jebb, the younger son of Dr. John Jebb, Dean of Cashel (c1706-1787), and elder brother of John Jebb (reformer). Bisse extended the...
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    built for Anne Morgan in 1921 and donated to the United Nations in 1972. Jebb Lie Hammarskjöld Thant Waldheim Pérez de Cuéllar Boutros-Ghali Annan Ban...
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    Sir John Eldon Gorst, PC, KC, FRS (24 May 1835 – 4 April 1916) was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Solicitor-General for England from 1885...
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    to the Administrative Council. In the cemetery are buried John Calvin (the Protestant reformer), Jorge Luis Borges (the Argentine author), Sérgio Vieira...
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  • Most Rev. John Gilbert, Archbishop of York. Through his sister, Lady Dorothy, he was uncle to the political reformer and radical writer Ann Jebb, wife of...
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    Samuel Romilly (category British reformers)
    November 1818) was a British lawyer, Whig politician, abolitionist and legal reformer. Born in London of French Huguenot descent, he was largely self-educated...
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    The Evelyn Waugh Society An Evelyn Waugh Web Site by David Cliffe Julian Jebb (Summer–Fall 1963). "Evelyn Waugh, The Art of Fiction No. 30". The Paris...
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    York: Harper & Row, 1957. xiv, 266 pp Dutch original by Huizinga (1924) Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1897). Erasmus. Cambridge University Press. Pennington...
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    allowed for the building of Pentonville prison, designed by Captain Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineers, for the detention of convicts sentenced to imprisonment...
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  • throughout England. Other notable radicals at the time included John Jebb, Major Cartwright, and John Horne. With the advent of the French Revolution, radicalism...
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    Afterwards Lloyd rang Gladwyn Jebb in Paris and asked him to arrange a further meeting with Pineau, Bourges-Manoury and Jebb himself. There was then a meeting...
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  • Johnson, Moralist, 1784 14 *John of the Cross, Poet, Teacher of the Faith, 1591 17 O Sapientia 17 Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save The Children'...
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    Granville Sharp, John Jebb, Sir George Savile, and Benjamin Franklin. Wyvill's writings were mostly shilling tracts, advocating radical reform. They include:...
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  • (1838–1912), social reformer Richard Hooker (1554–1600), priest, apologist, theologian Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928), social reformer, founder of 'Save The...
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  • businessman John Grant Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806), librarian Hugh Hamersley (d. 1790) John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker (1724–1803) John Jebb (1736–1786)...
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    formed in Britain, most between 1895 and 1905. In 1881, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, Mary Fraser Tytler and others initiated the Home Arts and Industries Association...
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    English Prison Reform." Journal of the History of Ideas 42.4 (1981): 675–690. Morris & Rothman 1995, p. 97 Eric Stockdale, "The Rise of Joshua Jebb, 1837-1850...
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    Aspasia and attacks his contemporaries' veneration of Pericles. Sir Richard C. Jebb concludes that "unique as an Athenian statesman, Pericles must have been...
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  • Florence Ada Keynes (category English social reformers)
    students to enter charitable work, including Eglantyne Jebb who was introduced to her by Marshall; Jebb subsequently founded Save the Children. She was the...
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