_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