Owen Jacobsen

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Thomas Owen Jacobsen (23 April 1864 – 15 June 1941) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was born in Richmond Terrace, Liverpool, on 23 April 1864, and was the son of a naturalised Dane. 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.

In March 1916, Francis Neilson, 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. 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. In 1918, he contested the new seat of Stalybridge and Hyde and was defeated.

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. He was part of the Liberal-supported Progressive grouping on the council. In 1921, the MP for Southwark South East resigned and Jacobsen was chosen by the local Liberal Progressive and Radical Association to fight the by-election. He 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 Jacobsen was heavily defeated by Thomas Naylor, leader of the London Labour Party.

Jacobsen retired from the London County Council in 1922, and stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Lambeth Kennington at the 1923 general election. He was going to stand at the 1924 general election but withdrew. The 1929 election was his last electoral contest, when he failed to win the City of London for the Liberals.

Jacobsen retired from politics and was president of the Stationers Association of Great Britain and Ireland from 1929 to 1931. In 1935, the Jacobsen and Welch Company was sold. He died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1941, aged 77.

Electoral record

1916 Hyde by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Owen Jacobsen	4,089	56.0
		DP Davies	3,215	44.0
Majority			874	12.0
Turnout				54.7
	hold		Swing	n/a

General election 1918: Stalybridge and Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Wood	13,462	51.4
		Walter Fowden	6,508	24.8
		Owen Jacobsen	6,241	23.8
Majority			6,954	26.6
Turnout				60.0
	hold		Swing

1919 London County Council election: Lambeth North (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Owen Jacobsen	2,656	38.1
		Rose Emma Lamartine Yates	2,619	37.6
		Louis Courtauld	885	12.7
		Camac Wilkinson	809	11.6
Majority			1,734	24.9
	hold		Swing
	gain from		Swing	n/a

1921 Southwark South East by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Naylor	6,561	57.0
		Owen Jacobsen	2,636	22.9
		Horace Louis Petit Boot	2,307	20.1
Majority			3,925	34.1
Turnout			11,504	38.5
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	39.6

General election 1923: Kennington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Williams	8,292	39.2
		Reginald Blair	7,782	36.8
		Owen Jacobsen	5,075	24.0
Majority			510	2.4
Turnout			21,149	57.6
Registered electors			36,729
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+6.8

General election 1929: City of London (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Vansittart Bowater	16,149	43.9
		Edward Grenfell	16,092	43.7
		Owen Jacobsen	4,579	12.4
Majority			11,513	31.3
Turnout			46,469	45.2
	hold		Swing	n/a

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