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Sir Richard Jebb was born in Stratford, Essex, and was baptised there in 1729. He matriculated at Oxford in 1747. He obtained his doctorate of medicine at Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1751. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1755. He was physician to the Westminster Hospital in 1754, and physician to St George's Hospital from 1760. He was elected as a permanent physician at St George's in 1962, and resigned his post at Westminster Hospital. He resigned from St Georges in 1768. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1771, and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1774. He was a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian societies, Physician Extraordinary to King George III, and Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales. He died in 1787.