William Jacob

(1762 c.-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jacob, William, 1762?-1851 NRA: Jacob William (1762-1851) Statistician DNB: Jacob, William (1761/2–1851), merchant and writer on the corn trade LBT ID: WiJacob1851 VIAF ID: 5245865 LOC ID: n88142532	B/BAP: 1762 DIED: 1851-12-17
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English traveler, politician, and economist; he was MP for Westbury (1806-07) and Rye (1808-12), contributed to the Quarterly Review, and was treasurer for the Royal Society of Literature (1832-38).
REFERENCES TO William Jacob: Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, 11 November 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 19 January 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1828 Found 4: ¶ n2 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ n2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXII. 1829 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1816