Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
Albert Charles Jacob was born on 28 August 1917, one of the nine children of James Henry Jacob (1874-1935) and Elizabeth Jacob née Lock (1878-1959). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1917 in the Bethnal Green Registration District, London.
The 1921 census return form that was completed by his father on 19 June 1921 shows him as aged 3 years, 10 months and in wholetime education. He was residing in four rooms at 52 Auckland Road (later renamed as Zealand Road), London, E3, with his parents and six of his surviving siblings: George Edward Jacobs (1901-1966) - a shop assistant employed by Pryke & Palmer Ltd, builder's merchant at 40-41 Upper Thames Street, London; Elizabeth Alice Jacob (1903-1958) - a shirt machinist employed by Ryland's & Co, shirt manufacturer, Bethnal Green Road, London; James Henry Jacob (1906-1977) - a greengrocer's assistant employed by a Mr Dyer at 65 Chisenhale Road, Bow, London, together with Lilian Charity Jacob (1908-1959), John David Jacob (1910-1972) and Frederick Jacob (1912-1987) who were all in wholetime education. Her father described himself as a carpenter's mate employed by Wills & Co at Chadwell Heath and his wife as an out of work general cook who had last been employed at The Blue Coat Boy public house at 5 Norton Folgate, London.
His date of birth was confirmed on the 1939 England and Wales Register in which he is shown as a scientific instrument worker electro plater on air ministry contract, living at 52 Zealand Road, Bethnal Green, with his widowed mother and four of his siblings: George E. Jacob - a managing clerk motor coach passenger traffic; Elizabeth A. Jacob - a shirt machinist; John D. Jacob - a carpenter & joiner and Frederick Jacob - a carpenter & joiner (Navy Army Air Force Institute).
Electoral registers from 1945 to 1959 list him at 52 Zealand Road, Bethnal Green and from 1961 at 11 Paradise Row, London, E2. Telephone directories up to 1984 also list him at 11 Paradise Row.
His death was registered as aged 82 years in November 1999 in the Tower Hamlets Registration District, Greater London.
He is shown as 'A• C• JACOB' on the foundation stones at both James Middleton House, Middleton Street, London, E2 and at Stafford Cripps House, Globe Road, London, E2.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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