George Andrew Jacob

The Reverend George Andrew Jacob DD (16 December 1807 - 7 May 1896) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster and author of many books about education and Christianity.

Jacob was born at Woolavington, Somerset, where his father the Reverend Stephen Long Jacob was incumbent. His mother was Susanna, daughter of the Reverend James Bond of Ashford, Kent, England. His younger brother General John Jacob was an Indian Army Officer who created Jacob's Horse and was accorded almost mythical status in Sind Province. In 1832 Jacob became headmaster of a Sheffield School (UK), and then became headmaster at Christ's Hospital in London. In his career he published many educational and religious books.

Jacob's great-grandson Alaric Jacob, the journalist and author, refers to him and his brother in his autobiographical novel "Scenes from a Bourgeois Life".

Bibliography

* 1838 - National Education on a Christian Basis (letter)
* 1841 - The Bromsgrove Latin Grammar
* 1842 - The Most Ancient and Most Modern Opposition to Christian Truth compared
* 1849 - Tricinium Gallicum
* 1851 - The Bromsgrove Latin Grammar (Abridged)
* 1864 - Praxis Gallica
* 1854 - The Sheffield-Collegiate School
* 1854 - Greek Grammar
* 1858 - The Presence of God
* 1861 - The Bromsgrove Greek Grammar
* 1871 - The Ecclesiastical Polity of the New Testament
* 1871 - A Sermon
* 1872 - The Revision of the Prayer Book
* 1874 - A Friendly Reply
* 1877 - Revised English Bible
* 1880 - The Sabbath Made for Man
* 1884 - The Lord's Supper Historically Considered
* (Undated) - Perpetuity of the Sabbath law in the 4th Commandment