Modern English biography

_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 393 (1887). JACOB, _Sir George Le Grand_ (5 son of John Jacob of Guernsey 1765–1840). _b._ Roath court near Cardiff 24 April 1805; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey; ensign 2 regt. Bombay N.I. 9 June 1821, major 1848–54; political agent in Cutch 1851–9; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1854–6, 27 Bombay N.I. 1856–8; commanded a native battalion in Persian expedition 1857; put down the mutiny in Kolapore Dec. 1857; special commissioner of South Mahratta country 1858; lieut. col. of 31 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 5 light infantry 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired as major-general; C.B. 21 March 1859; K.C.S.I. 4 June 1869; wrote numerous papers on Indian history, etc.; author of Report upon the general condition of Kattewar in 1842, 1845; Western India before and during the mutinies 1871. _d._ 12 Queensborough ter. Kensington gardens, London 27 Jany. 1881. _Overland Mail 6 May 1881 pp._ 17–18; _Holme’s Indian mutiny 3 ed._ (1888) 450, 454–57. JACOB, JOHN (5 son of Stephen Long Jacob, V. of Woolavington, Somerset, _d._ 1851 aged 86). _b._ Woolavington 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 11 Jany. 1828; raised the Sind irregular horse 1841 usually called Jacob’s horse, in command of which he continually harassed the enemy 17 Feb. 1843 to death; called by sir W. Napier the Seidlitz of the Sind army; political superintendent and commandant of frontier of Upper Sind 1847; C.B. 10 Sep. 1850; commanded the troops at Koree for service in Upper Sind 1852; the town of Kanghur was called Jacobabad in his honour 1851; acting comr. in Sind 1856 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 20 March 1857; commanded cavalry division in Persian war 1857; invented a greatly improved rifle 1858; raised 2 regiments of infantry called Jacob’s rifles 1858; author of Rifle practice 1855, 4 ed. 1858; Tracts on the native army of India 1857; A few remarks on the Bengal army and furlough regulations. By a Bombay officer 1857. _d._ Jacobabad 5 Dec. 1858, bust placed in shire hall at Taunton. _L. Pelly’s Views and opinions of J. Jacob_, _2 ed._ (1858); _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 227 (1858), _portrait_. JACOB, JOSHUA. _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary about 1805; a grocer Nicholas st. Dublin; disowned by Society of Friends 1838; formed a society of his own in Dublin commonly called White Quakers from the members wearing white garments 1838, with stations in other places; established a community at Newlands, Clondalkin, co. Dublin about 1849 which lasted but a short time; a grocer at Celbridge, co. Kildare; became a Roman catholic; author of Some account of the progress of the truth. Mountmellick 1843 and other small works. _d._ Wales 15 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin. _Joseph Smith’s Friends’ books_, _ii_ 4 (1867). JACOB, PHILIP (brother of sir George Le Grand Jacob _d._ 1881). _b._ 1803; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Newport, Monmouth 1827–31; R. of Crawley with Hunton, Wilts. 31 May 1831 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 19 July 1834 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 28 June 1860 to death. _d._ The Close, Winchester 20 Dec. 1884. JACOB, PHILIP WHITTINGTON. _b._ 1805; alderman of Guildford many years, mayor about 1866 when he stamped out the usual 5 Nov. riots; an eminent linguist in Eastern and European languages; a sub-editor of Dr. J. A. H. Murray’s A new English dictionary 1884 etc.; author of Hindoo tales: adventures of ten princes freely translated from the Sanskrit 1873. _d._ 6 Wellington place, Woodbridge road, Guildford 26 Dec. 1889. JACOB, SARAH (3 dau. of Evan Jacob, farmer, and Hannah his wife). _b._ Llethernoyadd-ucha farm, Carmarthenshire 12 May 1857; fell ill in Feb. 1867 with attacks of convulsions and lost all her hair; reported not to have eaten anything after 10 Oct. 1867, nor drank after Dec. 1867; in Oct. 1867 people commenced visiting her as The Welsh fasting girl and gave her presents of money and clothes; was watched by 3 nurses from Guy’s hospital 9 to 17 Dec. 1869 when she died having lived, as stated, without food for two years; Evan and Hannah Jacob tried for manslaughter at Carmarthen 14–15 July 1870, Evan condemned to 12 months hard labour and Hannah to six months hard labour, the cost of this prosecution to the country was about £800. _R. Fowler’s Complete history of Welsh fasting-girl_ (1871). JACOB, WILLIAM. _b._ 1762; South American merchant in Newgate st. London; F.R.S. 23 April 1807; M.P. Rye 1808–12; alderman for ward of Lime st. London 1810, resigned 1811; comptroller of corn returns in board of trade 1822, retired Jany. 1842; author of Travels in the south of Spain 1811; A view of the agriculture, manufacture, statistics and state of society of Germany and parts of Holland and France 1820; An historical enquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals 2 vols. 1831. _d._ 31 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 17 Dec. 1851. JACOB, WILLIAM STEPHEN (brother of John Jacob 1812–58). _b._ Woolavington vicarage 19 Nov. 1813; ed. at Addiscombe and Chatham; lieut. Bombay engineers 1 July 1833 to 1848; established a private observatory at Poonah 1842; director of Madras observatory Dec. 1848 to 13 Oct. 1859; projected erection of a mountain observatory on the Mahratta hills 5000 feet above the sea for which parliament voted £1000 in 1862; made observations on double stars, on satellites of Saturn and on Jupiter; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of A few more words on the plurality of worlds 1855; Meteorological observations made at Dodabetta bungalow 1851–5, 1857. _d._ Poonah 16 Aug. 1862. _Monthly notices of Astronomical Soc. xxiii_ 128–9 (1863). JACOBS, MR. _b._ Canterbury 1813; came out at Dover as an improvisatore, ventriloquist and conjuror 1834; first appeared in London at Horns tavern, Kennington 1835 when he introduced the Chinese ring trick; at Strand theatre 1841 when in imitation of J. H. Anderson he made a great show of expensive apparatus; brought out the trick of producing from under a shawl, bowls of water containing gold fish 1850; at Adelaide gallery 1853, in America 1854, in Australia and New Zealand 1860; opened Polygraphic hall, London 1860; his brother as a page named Sprightly was his assistant in his entertainments. _d._ 13 Oct. 1870 aged 57. _Frost’s Lives of Conjurors_ (1876) 214–20. JACOBS, SIMEON (son of Jacob or Lewis Jacobs of London, solicitor). _b._ 1830; ed. at City of London school; licensed by I.T. to practise as special pleader Nov. 1851; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; advocate of supreme court, Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 1860; attorney general of British Kaffraria 4 April 1861; solicitor general Cape of Good Hope 1866, attorney general 1874–82, puisne judge 1882, member of the executive council; C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ 22 Holland park gardens, London 15 June 1883. JACOBSON, William. _b._ about 1785; solicitor at Plymouth 1815–50; chief founder of the small debts court, which became the County Court 1847; chief founder and prior of The order of Blue Friars at Plymouth and known as Father Tuck 17 May 1829, wrote many articles for the Blue Box of the fraternity, which have since been printed. _d._ 5 Regent’s park, Exeter 25 April 1866. _W. H. K. Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 66–73, _portrait_, _and Pleasantries from the Blue Box_ (1891) _passim_. JACOBSON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jacobson a merchant’s clerk). _b._ Great Yarmouth 18 July 1803; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; commoner St. Edmund hall, Oxf. 1823; scholar of Lincoln college 1825; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1848; Ellerton theological prizeman 1829; fellow of Exeter college 1829–36, hon. fellow 9 Dec. 1882; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1832–48; select preacher at univ. 1833, 1842, public orator 1842–8; regius professor of divinity, canon of Ch. Ch. and R. of Ewelme, Oxf. 1 April 1848 to 1865; bishop of Chester 8 July 1865, consecrated in York minster 24 Aug. 1865, enthroned 13 Sep., resigned Feb. 1884; promoted the division of his diocese made by foundation of bishopric of Liverpool 9 April 1880; edited S. Clementis Romani S. Ignatii, S. Polycarpi quæ supersunt 2 vols. 1838, several editions; The works of Robert Sanderson 6 vols. 1854; author of Sixteen sermons preached in the church of Iffley 1840, 2 ed. 1846. _d._ the palace, Deeside 13 July 1884. _Burgon’s Lives of Twelve Good Men_ (1891) 367–401, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 217 (1865), _portrait_. JACOBSON, WILLIAM BOWSTEAD RICHARDS (1 son of the preceding). _b._ St. Peter in the East, Oxford 3 Aug. 1838; scholar of Winchester 1851–9; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 June 1859; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1862–4; C. of St. Mary, Golden lane, London 1864–7, and vicar 1870–7; C. of St. George, Bloomsbury, London 1867–70. _d._ 22 The Beacon, Exmouth 26 April