Personal
Jacobs married in 1900. In the 1901 census he is shown living with his twenty-year-old wife, Agnes Eleanor Williams, and their three-month-old daughter in Kings Place Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. At this time he was able to afford a domestic servant and cook, and his sister and sister-in-law were also living with them.
Jacobs went on to set up home in Loughton, Essex, where he had two houses, the Outlook, in Park Hill, and Feltham House, in Goldings Hill. On the site of the latter is a blue plaque to him. Loughton is the "Claybury" of some of the short stories, and Jacobs' love for the forest scenery in the area features in his "Land Of Cockaigne". Another blue plaque shows Jacobs' central London residence at 15 Gloucester Gate, Regents Park (later used for the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture). Jacobs' wife was a militant suffragette.
Jacobs died at Hornsey Lane, Islington, London.
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