Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson

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Sydney Jacobson (1930s)

Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson MC (birth name: Sydney Jacobsohn ; born October 26, 1908 in Zeerust , Transvaal , South Africa , † August 13, 1988 ) was a British journalist and publisher who was editor-in-chief of various press products and in 1975 as a life peer due to Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Studies, journalist and World War II

Jacobson was the son of an owner of an ostrich farm who immigrated to South Africa from Germany . After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to London , where he lived in the household of the lawyer and later Labor Party politician , Lewis Silkin , who was related to him. After attending Strand School , a grammar school located in Tulse Hill , he completed his studies at King's College London (KCL).

After completing his studies, Jacobson began working as a journalist in 1928, initially as a reporter for the London daily newspaper Daily Sketch , then between 1934 and 1936 as an editorial assistant for the English-language The Statesman, which appears in India , and then from 1936 to 1939 as an editorial assistant for the magazine Lilliput .

During World War II he did his military service in the Middlesex Regiment and was promoted to second lieutenant on November 2, 1940 . For his military services he was awarded the Military Cross in 1944 and was most recently promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Editor-in-chief of various publications and member of the House of Lords

After the war, Jacobson was from 1948 to 1950 chief editor of the weekly Leader Magazine and later from 1952 to 1962, political editor of the newspaper Daily Mirror . He then followed John Beavan as editor-in-chief of the Daily Mirror in 1962 and held this position until 1964. He then became the first editor-in-chief of the newly founded daily newspaper The Sun , which emerged from the Daily Herald , but handed over this position to Dick Dinsdale one year later in 1965 , the previous deputy editor-in-chief.

He then served as editor-in-chief of Odhams Press between 1965 and 1968 , before he was editor-in-chief of International Publishing Company (IPC Newspapers) from 1968 to 1974 . At the same time he was a member of the press council between 1968 and 1975 and at the same time vice chairman of IPC Newspapers from 1973 to 1974.

Jacobson was one of the Labor Party's most influential supporters in their victories in the two general elections on February 28, 1974 and October 10, 1974 .

By a letters patent dated July 16, 1975 Jacobson was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Jacobson , of St Albans in the County of Hertfordshire, to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. His official introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords took place on November 3, 1975 with the support of John Beavan, Baron Ardwick and Hugh Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp . Rumor has it that he stopped reading the Daily Mirror after Robert Maxwell bought the newspaper in 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35034, HMSO, London, January 2, 1941, p. 114 ( PDF , accessed November 11, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46636, HMSO, London, July 18, 1975, p. 9187 ( PDF , accessed November 11, 2013, English).
  3. ^ Entry in Hansard (November 3, 1975)
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson, Sydney, Baron Jacobson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobson, Sydney, Baron Jacobson (full name); Jacobsohn, Sydney (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeerust , Transvaal , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1988