13 Facts About Owen Jacobsen

Thomas Owen Jacobsen was a British businessman and Liberal politician.

Owen Jacobsen was born in Richmond Terrace, Liverpool, on 23 April 1864, and was the son of a naturalised Dane.

Owen Jacobsen was a master printer and the senior partner in the stationery company of Jacobsen, Welch and Company, whose paper mills were at Hyde, Cheshire.

Owen Jacobsen held the seat until the 1918 general election, when the constituency was abolished.

Owen Jacobsen was a resident of Brixton in South London and, in 1919, he was elected as a member of the London County Council for Lambeth North.

Owen Jacobsen was part of the Liberal-supported Progressive grouping on the council.

In 1921, the MP for Southwark South East resigned and Owen Jacobsen was chosen by the local Liberal Progressive and Radical Association to fight the by-election.

Owen Jacobsen was not opposed by the Conservative Party but refused to describe himself as a Coalition Liberal, but as a "Liberal supporting the Coalition Government".

The by-election took place on 14 December 1921 when Owen Jacobsen was heavily defeated by Thomas Naylor, leader of the London Labour Party.

Owen Jacobsen retired from the London County Council in 1922, and stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Lambeth Kennington at the 1923 general election.

Owen Jacobsen was going to stand at the 1924 general election but withdrew.

Owen Jacobsen retired from politics and was president of the Stationers Association of Great Britain and Ireland from 1929 to 1931.

Owen Jacobsen died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1941, aged 77.