JACOBS

Mr. b. Canterbury 1813; came out at Dover as an improvisatore, ventriloquist and conjuror 1834; first appeared in London at Horns tavern, Kenning ton 1835 when he introduced the Chinese ring trick; at Strand theatre 1841 when in imitation of J. H. Anderson he made a great show of expensive apparatus; brought out the trick of producing from under a shawl, bowls of water containing gold fish 1850; at Adelaide gallery 1853, in America 1854, in Australia and New Zealand 1860; opened Polygraphic hall, London 1860; his brother as a page named Sprightly was his a istant in his entertainments. d. 13 Oct. 1870 aged 57. Frost’s Lives of Conjurors (1876) 214–20.