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Sir Simeon Jacobs C.M.G. (1839 – June 15, 1883) was a Judge in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope. He served as Attorney-General and was the MP for Queenstown. ==Early life and political career== Born in 1839 into a Jewish family from London, Jacobs studied law and became a barrister of the Inner Temple in November 1852. In 1860, in an attempt to improve his poor health (from which he suffered throughout his life) he emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1861 was appointed attorney-general of the new colony of British Kaffraria, which office he held till 1866 when British Kaffraria was incorporated into the Cape Colony's eastern districts. Upon this annexation, Jacobs became ''"Solicitor-General at the Cape of Good Hope for the Eastern Districts"''. He also served several times as acting Attorney-General of the Cape, in the absence of the Attorney General Mr Griffith, and distinguished himself greatly with his extreme industriousness. Unlike Mr Griffith, Simeon Jacobs was strongly supportive of the multi-racial nature of the Cape's constitution, and for greater Black political empowerment. Also unlike Griffith, he was strongly supportive of the growing local movement for self-government, the "Responsible Government" movement. At the same time, he worked with the powerful MP Saul Solomon on abolishing preferential state aid to churches in the Cape Colony. Saul Solomon, while proud of his Jewish ancestry, disliked religious divisions and considered himself a member of all religions; in contrast Simeon Jacobs was strongly and overtly expressive of his Jewish identity, supporting the growth of Jewish institutions in the Cape, and was at one point the recognised leader of the Jewish community of South Africa.〔https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09910.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simeon Jacobs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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