John Jacob | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:JohnJacob_NPG_2186a.jpg) Brigadier General Jacob, engraving by Thomas Lewis Atkinson, 1859 | |
| Born | 11 January 1812 Woolavington, Somerset, England |
| Died | 6 December 1858 (aged 46) Jacobabad, British India (now in Sindh, Pakistan) |
| Buried | Jacobabad, British India (now in Pakistan) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_the_British_East_India_Company_(1801).svg){kind=small} East India Company |
| Years of service | 1828–1858 |
| Rank | Brigadier-General |
| Commands | 36th Jacob's Horse |
| Battles / wars | |
Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (11 January 1812 – 6 December 1858) was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career. He is known for the cavalry regiment called 36th Jacob's Horse, and for founding the town of Jacobabad, in Sind province of British India (now Sindh in modern day Pakistan), where he planned and supervised the transformation of thousands of acres of desert into arable land over the course of twenty years. The scale of progress and prosperity his works brought to the region can be appreciated by comparing those regions' relative prosperity compared to areas which were not under his administrative jurisdiction.[1]