Dom Philip Jebb

Jebb was a son of Reginald Jebb and his wife, Eleanor Belloc, a daughter of Hilaire Belloc. He was also a grandson of George Robert Jebb, a civil engineer. When he was born, his parents were keeping a prep school at Hawkesyard, in Staffordshire, but in 1935 they moved to live with Belloc at King's Land in West Sussex, where there was a private chapel and many visitors, including Roman Catholic writers and priests. After some home-schooling, from 1942 Jebb was educated at Worth in Sussex and later at Downside School, where he arrived in 1944. He became a novice monk at Downside Abbey in 1950, when he was perplexed to be made to take the name of Brother Philip, as he had an elder brother of that name. Lastly he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read classics. Jebb's older brother, Philip, was an architect, and he also had two sisters, the elder of whom, Marianne, became a Canoness of St Augustine at the Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel, at Haywards Heath, taking the name of Sister Emmanuel Mary, and was headmistress of its school. ==Career==

Returning to his life at Downside after Cambridge, Jebb was a historian and archivist for the Benedictine order in England and was the force behind the building of a new library at Downside. and it was reported in 1970 that he had been teaching fencing to boys at the school for some ten years. He was head master of the school from 1980 to 1991. The boys to be removed had been caught dealing in the drug. Two months later, a further tightening of discipline led to a rowdy midnight protest by the boys, wearing pyjamas. Jebb then announced the reversal of a plan to admit girls to the school. After retiring from the school in 1991, Jebb was Prior of Downside. He died at Bath, Somerset, on 8 June 2014. ==Selected publications==

• Dom Philip Jebb, ed., Missale de Lesnes: MS L404 in the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Henry Bradshaw Society, 1964, ) • Dom Philip Jebb, Religious Education Drift or Decision? (London: Longman & Todd, 1968) • Dom Philip Jebb, Religious Education: Downside Symposium (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1968, ) • Dom Philip Jebb, By Death Parted: The Stories of Six Widows (St Bede's Press, 2002, ) ==References==