Jebb

Jebb
This unusual name is one of the medieval English diminutive forms of the male personal name "Jeffrey", which was introduced into England by the Normans after the Conquest of 1066. The name was adopted by the Normans from an Old Germanic name usually Latinized as "Galfridus" or "Gaufridus", and composed of the elements "gala" to sing, or "gawi", region, territory, with "frid, frithu", peace. The Norman forms (Old French) were "Geuffron", "Jeufroi", and "Jefroi", which became in Middle English "Geffrey", and generated a wide variety of surnames, including the diminutive forms Jebb, Jepp(e), Gebb, Gepp and Jeff(e). One Lucas Jebbe is recorded in the 1508 Register of the Freeman of the City of York. The marriage of Mychaell Jebb and Amye Cooper was recorded at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, on July 14th 1590. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Gebbe, which was dated 1327, in the "Suffolk Subsidy Rolls", during the reign of King Edward 11, known as "Edward of Caernafon", 1307 - 1327. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Jebb, John — ▪ British religious and social reformer born Feb. 16, 1736, Ireland died March 2, 1786, London, Eng.       British political, religious, and social reformer who championed humanitarian and constitutional causes far in advance of his time.… …   Universalium

  • Jebb — biographical name Sir Richard Claverhouse 1841 1905 Scottish scholar …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Jebb — /jeb/, n. Sir Richard Claverhouse /klav euhr hows /, 1841 1905, Scottish scholar of classical Greek. * * * …   Universalium

  • Jebb — /dʒɛb/ (say jeb) noun Sir Richard Claverhouse, 1841–1905, Scottish classical scholar …  

  • Jebb — /jeb/, n. Sir Richard Claverhouse /klav euhr hows /, 1841 1905, Scottish scholar of classical Greek …   Useful english dictionary

  • JEBB, PROFESSOR —    eminent Greek scholar, born in Dundee; elected in 1889 Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge; has represented Cambridge in Parliament since 1891; edited Sophocles, The Attic Orators, Introduction to Homer, &c.; B. 1841 …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse — (1841 1905)    B. at Dundee, and ed. at St. Columba s Coll., Dublin, Charterhouse, and Camb., at the last of which he lectured on the classics, and was in 1869 elected Public Orator. After being Prof. of Greek at Glasgow, he held from 1889 the… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

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