Jacob, Hildebrand

(1693-1739)

   He was the only son of Colonel Sir John Jacob, 3rd Baronet, of Bromley, Kent; his mother was Lady Catherine Barry, daughter of the second Earl of Barrymore. He died the year before his father, leaving a widow and two children. His son, also Hildebrand, succeeded to his grandfather's title in 1740. Few other details of his life are recorded. Some of his poetry publications: The Curious Maid, 1720-1721 (a poem that was frequently imitated and parodied). Bedlam: A Poem, 1732. Chiron to Achilles: A Poem, 1732. Hymn to the Goddess of Silence, 1734. Brutus the Trojan: Founder of the British Empire, 1735 (an epic poem). The Works of Hildebrand Jacob ... Containing Poems on Various Subjects, and Occasions, 1735. Some of his poems: "Here Delia's buried at fourscore," "Swain, give o'er your fond pretension," "The Alarm," "The Judgment of Tiresias," "The Writer," "To Cloe," "To Geron."

   Sources: Dictionary of National Biography. Electronic Edition 1.1. Oxford University Press, 1997. English Poetry, Second Edition Bibliography (http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/html/ep2/bibliography/g.htm). English Poetry: Author Search. Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1995 (http://www.lib. utexas.edu:8080/search/epoetry/author.html). The National Portrait Gallery (www.npg.org.uk). Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (http://library.stanford.edu). The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org). The Faber Book of Comic Verse. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith, eds. Faber and Faber, 1978. The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs. Geoffrey Grigson, ed. Faber and Faber, 1977. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. Roger Lonsdale, ed. Oxford University Press, 2003.