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John Jacob (East India Company officer)
Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (11 January 1812 – 6 December 1858) was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career. He is known for the cavalry regiment called 36th Jacob's Horse and for founding the town of Jacobabad which was single-handedly turned into thousands of acres of arable land from a desert in just twenty years. The scale of progress and prosperity his works brought to the region, can be very well appreciated, by just comparing it with the contiguous areas in today’s Baluchistan which were not under his administrative jurisdiction.〔http://www.dawn.com/news/720466/remembering-general-john-jacob-an-able-administrator-and-a-master-planne〕
==Early life==
He was born at Woolavington, in the county of Somerset, England, where his father the Reverend Stephen Long Jacob was incumbent. His mother was Susanna, daughter of the Reverend James Bond of Ashford, Kent, England. He was schooled by his father until he obtained his cadetship to Addiscombe Military Seminary.〔Through the good offices of his cousin, Capt William Jacob of the Bombay Artillery in February 1826. His elder brother, Herbert, was then also serving out in India as a new subaltern. HT Lambrick, ''John Jacob of Jacobabad'', reprint, Karachi, 1975, of original edition, p.7〕 A number of the young cadets there who were his contemporaries, included such famous officers as Eldred Pottinger, Robert Cornelis Napier, Henry Mortimer Durand, Vincent Eyre and others.〔Lambrick, p.8〕 He was commissioned into the Bombay Artillery (Bombay Army) on his 16th birthday, and subsequently sailed for India in January 1828, never to set foot in England again.
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