Alaric Jacob [SEP] date of death
Alaric Jacob
Harold Alaric Jacob (8 June 1909 – 26 January 1995) was an English writer and journalist. He was Reuters correspondent in Washington in the 1930s, and a war correspondent during World War II in North Africa, Burma and Moscow.
Early life.
Jacob was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob, Indian Army and at one time Political Agent in Aden. He was born in Edinburgh due to his mother Ellen Hoyer, the daughter of a Danish missionary, being brought up in Scotland
writer Alaric Jacob (who predeceased her); Jacob was then working for the BBC. They had one son and daughter; with a child from Jacob's previous marriage.
She died on 18 January 2009 at Denville Hall in Northwood, London, one week after her 88th birthday. She was reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer at the time of her death. Her son, daughter, and stepdaughter survived her, along with five grandchildren.
Sources.
- McFarlane, Brian. "An Autobiography