Hedley Powell Jacobs OBE (15 March 1904 – 10 October 1985) was an English journalist, historian, writer, and socialist, who emigrated to Jamaica and was one of the founders of the People's National Party in 1938.

In 1936 he was admitted to The Linguistic Society of America with a specialism in Teutonic and Creole languages.

[8] He was a justice of the peace and the general secretary of the Jamaica Imperial Association, later the Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs.

[9] In 1966 he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire for public services to literature and history.

[10] Jacobs died on 10 October 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica, from the effects of pneumonia and a bleeding duodenal ulcer.