Owen Jacobsen
Owen Jacobsen | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of Parliament for Hyde | |
| Preceded by | Francis Neilson |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Owen Jacobsen 23 April 1864 |
| Died | 15 June 1941 (aged 77) |
| Political party | Liberal |
Thomas Owen Jacobsen (23 April 1864 – 15 June 1941) was a British businessman and
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]
In March 1916,
MP for Hyde, resigned his seat. Jacobsen was chosen as the 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 and Hyde and was defeated.
Jacobsen was a resident of
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
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Owen Jacobsen | 4,089 | 56.0 | +4.6 | |
Independent
|
DP Davies | 3,215 | 44.0 | n/a | |
| Majority | 874 | 12.0 | +9.2 | ||
| Turnout | 54.7 | -34.3 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist
|
John Wood | 13,462 | 51.4 | ||
| Labour | Walter Fowden | 6,508 | 24.8 | ||
| Liberal | Owen Jacobsen | 6,241 | 23.8 | ||
| Majority | 6,954 | 26.6 | |||
| Turnout | 60.0 | ||||
Unionist hold
|
Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive | Owen Jacobsen | 2,656 | 38.1 | ||
Independent
|
Rose Emma Lamartine Yates
|
2,619 | 37.6 | n/a | |
| Municipal Reform | Louis Courtauld | 885 | 12.7 | ||
| Municipal Reform | Camac Wilkinson | 809 | 11.6 | ||
| Majority | 1,734 | 24.9 | |||
| Progressive hold | Swing | ||||
| Independent gain from Municipal Reform | Swing | n/a | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Thomas Naylor | 6,561 | 57.0 | 29.6 | |
National Liberal
|
Owen Jacobsen | 2,636 | 22.9 | -49.7 | |
| Ind. Unionist | Horace Louis Petit Boot | 2,307 | 20.1 | n/a | |
| Majority | 3,925 | 34.1 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | 11,504 | 38.5 | -6.7 | ||
National Liberal
|
Swing | 39.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Thomas Williams
|
8,292 | 39.2 | +3.1 | |
Unionist
|
Reginald Blair
|
7,782 | 36.8 | −10.5 | |
| Liberal | Owen Jacobsen | 5,075 | 24.0 | +7.4 | |
| Majority | 510 | 2.4 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | 21,149 | 57.6 | −0.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 36,729 | ||||
Unionist
|
Swing | +6.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist
|
Vansittart Bowater
|
16,149 | 43.9 | n/a | |
Unionist
|
Edward Grenfell | 16,092 | 43.7 | n/a | |
| Liberal | Owen Jacobsen | 4,579 | 12.4 | n/a | |
| Majority | 11,513 | 31.3 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | 46,469 | 45.2 | n/a | ||
Unionist hold
|
Swing | n/a | |||
References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ^ Liverpool Mercury 26 April 1864 p.3 Births, Deaths & Marriages
- ^ a b "Resignation of Mr Neilson", The Times, 3 March 1916, p.9
- ^ a b "S. E. Southwark Contest", The Times, 21 November 1921, p.7
- ^ "News in Brief", The Times, 13 March 1916, p.5
- ^ "Ministerial Secretaries", The Times, 19 February 1917, p.11
- ^ "LCC Election Results", The Times, 8 March 1919, p.14
- ^ "Labour Victory in Southwark", The Times, 15 December 1921, p.12
- ^ "General Election 1923 - Candidates nominated", The Times, 27 November 1923, p.8
- ^ "The General Election: First List of Candidates", The Times, 15 October 1924
- ^ "Election Contest in the City", The Times, 11 May 1929, p.9
- ^ "Obituary: Mr T. O. Jacobsen", The Times, 19 June 1941, p.7
- ^ "City News in Brief", The Times, 16 April 1935, p.23
- ^ "Deaths", The Times, 18 June 1941, p.1