list of potential political subversives as a result. In 1949, Jacob published Scenes from a Bourgeois Life, a semi-autobiographical novel and an apologia for the paradoxes and anomalies of his career. BBC In August 1948, Jacob joined the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, Reading, but in February 1951 he was "suddenly refused establishment rights, which meant he would receive no pension". He complained unsuccessfully to his cousin Sir Ian Jacob, who was a senior figure in the BBC and later became the organization's Director-General. Some have attributed Jacob's problems to the fact that his name was on Orwell's list, a list of people with pro-communist leanings, prepared in March 1949 by Orwell for his friend Celia Kirwan at the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government. Jacob's establishment and pension rights were restored shortly after Iris (also on Orwell's list) died in 1953. By the time he retired in 1972, Jacob had become a senior editor at Bush House, then the base of the BBC World Service. In 1971, Jacob published Eminent Nonentities, a book of short stories about the unknown characters he encountered as a war correspondent. Personal life After Iris died in 1953, Jacob married British actress Kathleen Byron. He had one daughter with Iris Morley, and a son and daughter with Byron. Journalist Paul Hogarth described Jacob in his obituary as the quintessential English journalist; urbane yet modest, with a bone-dry sense of humor and a razor intelligence. "He possessed the grand manner of an Edwardian foreign correspondent with an Alan-Clark-like taste for vintage claret, a good cigar and fine brandy". Jacob died in Lambeth, London, aged 85 on 26 January 1995. Byron survived him; she died in January 2009. Publications Seventeen (1930) A Traveller's War (1944) A Window in Moscow (1946) Scenes from a Bourgeois Life (1949) Two Ways in the World (1962) A Russian Journey Eminent Nonentities (1971) Unpublished books A Snob's Guide to Socialism Lovers of the Lost References 1909 births 1995 deaths British expatriates in the Soviet Union English male journalists English people of Danish descent People educated at The King's School, Canterbury People educated at St Cyprian's School Writers about the Soviet Union British expatriates in the United States