• Name: Jacob, Joseph
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date:
• Death Date: 21  April  1832

Entries are to both Jacob and Joseph Jacob who have been coded as identical. Godwin records Joseph Jacob's death in 1832 and we have little further identification. There’s a ‘W’ Jacob in 1810, a ‘Jacob’ that same year, and then ‘Joseph Jacob’ in 1828, where references to the name seem to recommence. He usually appears on his own – generally in the context of evening dinners. In terms of contacts, he appears once in 1829 where Godwin has a following ‘adv’ with Dendy, once with Dendy in the following year, once in 1831 with Miss Northcote, later that year with Jones and Forster, once in 1828 with Miss Borman and then with the Jones’s in a separate instance in the same year. At the present time, we know little about these contacts. In 1831, Godwin records the elusive entry: ‘Mitchel (Tyne Mercury) , and Prideaux (Plymouth) call: sup at Jacob’s . (he called at No. 11.)’ There’s a passage in Marshall that reads: ‘Godwin decided to remain in London and lodged from April to May (in 1773) with one John Jacob, a druggist in Fish Street Hill in the City. The household was alive with political discussion. His host, not like his former tutor Newton, was ‘a most zealous champion of the Wilkite party’ and not surprisingly the young Tory Godwin ‘immediately conceived a warm attachment and profound deference’ to his brother Joseph who was ‘politically in total hostility, without any breach of fraternal accord’. Godwin enters 'Joseph Jacob dies' on 21.4.1832. This might ref to the same person as noted in Jackson's Oxford Journal, 28.4.1832, in a section reprinting the London news: 'At Michael's Grove, Brompton, J. Jacob, Esq. aged 93.'

• Jackson's Oxford Journal, 28 April 1832
• Marshall, p. 30

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.