Jacob Isaacs (merchant)

Jacob Isaacs (9 October 1799 – 24 May 1870) was a Jamaican merchant and planter who moved to London and established a successful career.

[1] He married Eliza, also born in Jamaica, and they had children Sarah G. (1835–), Agnes (1836–1889), Georgina (1838–), Eliza (1841–), Albert Henry (c. 1841–), Augusta Mary (1843), Lydia (1846–), Edith Annie (1847–1925),[2] Ellen Octavia (1849–), and Mabel I.

[1] By the time of the 1851 British census he was living at 5 Dorset Square, Marylebone, London, and trading as a merchant.

His son Albert was working in his father's business in 1861 and Isaacs was able to afford to employ a nurse, an invalid attendant and six servants.

Isaacs died on 24 May 1870 at 1a Cavendish Road, St John's Wood, Middlesex, leaving an estate not exceeding £30,000.