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 corresponding chair at Camb., and for a time represented the Univ. in Parliament.  He was one of the founders of the British School of Archaeology at Athens.  Among his works are The Attic Orators, An Introduction to Homer, Lectures on Greek Poetry, Life of Richard Bentley (English Men of Letters Series), and he ed. the works of Sophocles, and the Poems and Fragments of Bacchylides, discovered in 1896.  J. was one of the most brilliant of modern scholars.

JEFFERIES, RICHARD (1848-1887).—­Naturalist and novelist, s. of a farmer, was b. at Swindon, Wilts.  He began his literary career on the staff of a local newspaper, and first attracted attention by a letter in the Times on the Wiltshire labourer.  Thereafter he wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, in which appeared his Gamekeeper at Home, and Wild Life in a Southern County (1879), both afterwards repub. Both these works are full of minute observation and vivid description of country life.  They were followed by The Amateur Poacher (1880), Wood Magic (1881), Round about a Great Estate (1881), The Open Air (1885), and others on similar subjects.  Among his novels are Bevis, in which he draws on his own childish memories, and After London, or Wild England (1885), a romance of the future, when London has ceased to exist. The Story of My Heart (1883) is an idealised picture of his inner life.  J. d. after a painful illness, which lasted for six years.  In his own line, that of depicting with an intense sense for nature all the elements of country and wild life, vegetable and animal, surviving in the face of modern civilisation, he has had few equals.  Life by E. Thomas.

JEFFREY, FRANCIS (1773-1850).—­Critic and political writer, s. of a legal official, b. in Edinburgh, ed. at the High School there, and at Glasgow and Oxf., where, however, he remained for a few months only.  Returning to Edinburgh he studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1794.  Brought up as a Tory, he early imbibed Whig principles, and this, in the then political state of Scotland, together with his strong literary tendencies, long hindered his professional advancement.  Gradually, however, his ability, acuteness, and eloquence carried him to the front of his profession.  He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1829 and, on the accession to power of the Whigs in 1830, became Lord Advocate, and had a large share in passing the Reform Bill, in so far as it related to Scotland.  In 1832 he was elected M.P. for Edinburgh, and was raised to the Bench as Lord Jeffrey in 1834.  His literary