Thomas Owen Jacobsen (23 April 1864 – 15 June 1941) was a British businessman and

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politician. He was born in Richmond Terrace,

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, on 23 April 1864, and was the son of a

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."Resignation of Mr Neilson", ''The Times'', 3 March 1916, p.9 He was a master printer and the senior partner in the

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company of Jacobsen, Welch and Company, whose paper mills were at Hyde,

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."S. E. Southwark Contest", ''The Times'', 21 November 1921, p.7"News in Brief", ''The Times'', 13 March 1916, p.5 In March 1916,

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, 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

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. He held the seat until the 1918 general election, when the constituency was abolished. In 1917, he was appointed as private secretary to

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, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. In 1918, he contested the new seat of

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and was defeated. Jacobsen was a resident of

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and, in 1919, he was elected as a member of the

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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

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, but as a "Liberal supporting the Coalition Government". The

took place on 14 December 1921 when Jacobsen was heavily defeated by

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, 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

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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

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, in 1941, aged 77."Deaths", ''The Times'', 18 June 1941, p.1

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobsen, Owen Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 1864 births 1941 deaths UK MPs 1910–1918 Members of London County Council Progressive Party (London) politicians English people of Danish descent Businesspeople from Liverpool National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians