Owen Jacobsen

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Owen Jacobsen
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Member of Parliament
for Hyde
Preceded by Francis Neilson
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Thomas Owen Jacobsen

(1864-04-23)23 April 1864
Died15 June 1941(1941-06-15) (aged 77)
Political party Liberal

Thomas Owen Jacobsen (23 April 1864 - 15 June 1941) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was born in Richmond Terrace, Liverpool on 23 April 1864, [1] and was the son of a naturalised Dane. [2] He was a master printer and the senior partner in the stationery company of Jacobsen, Welch and Company, whose paper mills were at Hyde, Cheshire. [3] [4]

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In March 1916, Francis Neilson, MP for Hyde, resigned his seat. Jacobsen was chosen as Liberal candidate, and was endorsed by the Asquith led Coalition Government. He was elected at the ensuing by-election. [2] He held the seat until the 1918 general election, when the constituency was abolished. In 1917 he was appointed as private secretary to Leo Chiozza Money, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. [5] In 1918 he contested the new seat of Stalybridge & Hyde and was defeated.

Jacobsen was a resident of Brixton in South London, and in 1919 he was elected as a member of the London County Council for Lambeth North. He was part of the Liberal-supported Progressive grouping on the council. [6] In 1921 the MP for Southwark South East resigned, and Jacobsen was chosen by the local Liberal Progressive and Radical Association to fight the by-election. He was not opposed by the Conservative Party, but refused to describe himself as a Coalition Liberal, but as a "Liberal supporting the Coalition Government". [3] The contest took place on 14 December 1921, and Jacobsen was heavily defeated by Thomas Naylor, leader of the London Labour Party. [7]

Jacobsen retired from the London County Council in 1922, and stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Lambeth Kennington at the 1923 general election. [8] He was going to stand at the 1924 general election but withdrew. [9] The 1929 election was his last electoral contest, when he failed to win the City of London for the Liberals. [10]

Jacobsen retired from politics, and was president of the Stationers Association of Great Britain and Ireland from 1929 to 1931. [11] In 1935 the Jacobsen and Welch Company was sold. [12] He died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1941, aged 77. [13]

Electoral record

1916 Hyde by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Owen Jacobsen4,08956.0+4.6
Independent DP Davies3,21544.0n/a
Majority87412.0+9.2
Turnout 54.7-34.3
Liberal hold Swing n/a
General election 1918: Stalybridge and Hyde
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Unionist John Wood 13,46251.4
Labour Walter Fowden6,50824.8
Liberal Owen Jacobsen6,24123.8
Majority6,95426.6
Turnout 60.0
Unionist hold Swing
1919 London County Council election: Lambeth North (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Progressive Owen Jacobsen2,65638.1
Independent Rose Emma Lamartine Yates 2,61937.6n/a
Municipal Reform Louis Courtauld88512.7
Municipal Reform Camac Wilkinson80911.6
Majority1,73424.9
Progressive hold Swing
Independent gain from Municipal ReformSwingn/a
1921 Southwark South East by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Thomas Naylor 6,56157.029.6
Coalition Liberal Owen Jacobsen2,63622.9-49.7
Independent Unionist Horace Louis Petit Boot2,30720.1n/a
Majority3,92534.1n/a
Turnout 11,50438.5-6.7
Labour gain from Coalition Liberal Swing 39.6
General election 1923: Kennington
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Thomas Williams 8,29239.2+3.1
Unionist Reginald Blair 7,78236.8−10.5
Liberal Owen Jacobsen5,07524.0+7.4
Majority5102.4n/a
Turnout 21,14957.6−0.8
Registered electors 36,729
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +6.8
General election 1929: City of London (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Unionist Vansittart Bowater 16,14943.9n/a
Unionist Edward Grenfell 16,09243.7n/a
Liberal Owen Jacobsen4,57912.4n/a
Majority11,51331.3n/a
Turnout 46,46945.2n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a

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References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

  1. ↑ Liverpool Mercury 26 April 1864 p.3 Births, Deaths & Marriages
  2. 1 2 "Resignation of Mr Neilson", The Times, 3 March 1916, p.9
  3. 1 2 "S. E. Southwark Contest", The Times, 21 November 1921, p.7
  4. ↑ "News in Brief", The Times, 13 March 1916, p.5
  5. ↑ "Ministerial Secretaries", The Times, 19 February 1917, p.11
  6. ↑ "LCC Election Results", The Times, 8 March 1919, p.14
  7. ↑ "Labour Victory in Southwark", The Times, 15 December 1921, p.12
  8. ↑ "General Election 1923 - Candidates nominated", The Times, 27 November 1923, p.8
  9. ↑ "The General Election: First List of Candidates", The Times, 15 October 1924
  10. ↑ "Election Contest in the City", The Times, 11 May 1929, p.9
  11. ↑ "Obituary: Mr T. O. Jacobsen", The Times, 19 June 1941, p.7
  12. ↑ "City News in Brief", The Times, 16 April 1935, p.23
  13. ↑ "Deaths", The Times, 18 June 1941, p.1
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Preceded by
Francis Neilson 		Member of Parliament for Hyde
1916 – 1918 		Constituency abolished
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