Personal Life
After Iris died in 1953, Jacob married again to the British actress Kathleen Byron. He had a daughter by his first wife and a son and daughter by his second wife.
Journalist Paul Hogarth described Alaric Jacob, in an obituary notice, as the quintessential English journalist; urbane, yet modest, with a bone-dry sense of humour and a razor intelligence. "He possessed the grand manner of an Edwardian foreign correspondent with an Alan-Clark-like taste for vintage claret, a good cigar and fine brandy".
Jacob died in the Lambeth, London, aged 85. Byron survived him, and died in January 2009.
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