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JACOB, EDWARD, only son of William Jacob MP FRS, Chelsham, Surrey, Comptroller of Corn Returns, Board of Trade; b.; adm. 11 Jan 1808; left 1811; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Mar 1812, aged 16; migrated to Gonville and Caius Coll., adm. pens. 19 Oct 1812, scholar 1812-6, matr. Mich. 1812; Senior Wrangler and First Smith’s Prizeman 1816; BA 1816; MA 1819; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll. 1816-24, Senior Fellow from 1824; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 May 1816, called to bar 28 Jun 1819, Bencher 23 Jan 1835; Tancred Orator 23 Jan 1819; KC 1834; practised at Chancery bar with great success until breakdown in health 1841; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1828-31, when post abolished); just before his health failed Jacob had been assured by the Lord Chancellor of his appointment to one of the new Vice-Chancellorships; for his struggle with Whewell for the Senior Wranglership in 1816 see Elizabethan xi, 99, and W. W. R. Ball, Cambridge Papers, 1918, 289; edited Roper’s Treatise of the Law of Property arising from the case between Husband and Wife, 1826; joint author with John Walker of Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery during the time of Lord Eldon, 1821-3, and sole author of a further volume of Reports, 1827-8; d. at Malta 15 Dec 1841. DNB (s. v. father).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.