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Philip jebb
Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb (15 March 1927 - 7 April 1995), was a British architect and Liberal Party politician.
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Background
Jebb was the son of Reginald Jebb and Eleanor Belloc. He was a grandson of the writer and former Liberal MP Hilaire Belloc. He was also a grandson of the civil engineer George Robert Jebb. He was educated at Downside School and King's College, Cambridge. In 1955 he married Lucy Margaret Pollen, sister of the architect Francis Pollen. They had two sons and two daughters. His brother Anthony became a monk of the Benedictine order at Downside Abbey, taking the name Dom Philip Jebb.
Professional career
Following National service, Jebb read architecture at Cambridge, and qualified as an architect and eventually went into private practice. He enlarged Audley End House to three times its former size in 1967-70 for the Hon. Robin Neville. Around 1967 he aided portrait painter Dominick Elwes, in the design of a Mediterranean-style apartment complex, in Andalucia, Spain, which was completed in 1970. In 1971, Jebb designed a restaurant for Winston Churchill's house, Chartwell, on behalf of the National Trust.
Political career
Jebb came forward as a last-minute Liberal candidate for the new Central division of Norfolk at the 1950 General Election. The seat included much of the old Norfolk East constituency which had been represented by the former Liberal, Frank Medlicott, who had not been opposed before by an official Liberal candidate;
He did not stand for parliament again.