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Gertrude Louisa Le Grand Jacob (b.1837?)

Description

contributor to MP (1873)

Biography

Her contribution is signed 'G. L. J.'. She was sister of Edith and Edgar Jacob. Their father's youngest brother, Sir George Le Grand Jacob (1805-1881), retired after a distinguished career in the Indian army in 1861, and took Gertrude to live with him as his adopted daughter; she collaborated on some of his oriental researches.