his home, 31 Cadogen Place, Sloane Street, London, on 17 December 1851. William Jacob outlived a son, the barrister and legal writer Edward Jacob (1795/6–1841),. An obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine gave William's age as 89. According to Joshua Wilson, Jacob had become by 1806, “a commercial man of considerable credit” and was “one of the few Englishmen who, in the present day had carried on a direct trade with South America.” References External links 1760s births 1851 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 Fellows of the Royal Society Tory MPs (pre-1834) British people in whaling