NOTABLE JACOBS

Noted here are Jacobs who have graduated to the Dictionary of National Biography, Boase's Dictionary of Biography and Who's Who, as also specialist biographical dictionaries.

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Alaric Jacob (1909-1995), author, journalist and correspondent.

Archibald Hamilton Jacob MD, author of the History of the Families of Jacob.

Major-General Arthur Legrand Jacob CB, CMG, CIE, CBE, DSO, ADC to King George V (1867-1942).

Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG (1863-1947).

Edgar Jacob (1844-1920), Bishop successively of Newcastle and St Albans.

Edward Jacob FSA (1713-1788), mayor of Faversham, author, antiquary and bibliophile.

Professor Ernest Fraser Jacob (1894-1971), historian.

Major-General Sir George Legrand Jacob KCSI CB (1805-1881), Indian Army, author.

Gordon Septimus Jacob CBE (1895-1984), the composer.

Lt-Col Harold Fenton Jacob CSI (1866-1936), Arabist and diplomat in Aden and Cairo, author.

Henry Jacob (1561-1624), dissident minister, author, founder of Jacobopolis in Virginia, USA.

Major-General Herbert Jacob (1806-1890), Indian Army.

Hildebrand Jacob (1692-1739), 18th century poet and playwright, best remembered perhaps for his indelicate poetry.

Lt-Gen Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob GBE CB (1899-1993), Assistant Military Secretary to the war cabinet (WWII) and Director General of the BBC.

Iris Morley (1910-1953), correspondent, author.

Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (1812-1858) founder of Jacobabad, Commandant of the Scinde Irregular Horse and Jacob's Horse.

Sir John Jacob (1597-1666), 1st Baronet, of Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex, Royalist and staunch adherer to the cause of King Charles I.

John Jeremiah Jacob (1829-1893), 4th Governor of West Virginia, USA.

Sir Lionel Montague Jacob KCSI (1853-1934), Chief Engineer of Burma etc.

Kathleen Byron (1923- ), the actress.

Mary Phelps Jacob (1891-1970), the inventor of the modern bra. This is an occasion where Wikipedia give a reasonably accurate account.

Robert Jacob MD (ca 1549-1588), Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth I and to the Tzarina of Russia.

Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob KCIE CVO (1841-1917), architect, designer of many well-known buildings in India.

William Stephen Jacob (1813-1862), Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Director of the Madras Observatory.

Colonel Sydney Long Jacob CIE (1849-1911), one of the members of the inner cabinet of John Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren.