Early Life
Jacob was born in 1899 in Quetta, Pakistan (then a part of the British Empire). His father was Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, in whose footsteps Ian followed by becoming a professional soldier with the Royal Engineers in 1918. In 1924, Jacob married Cecil Treherne, the daughter of another senior army officer, Surgeon Major-General Sir Francis Treherne. The couple had two sons.
Jacob trained as an officer at the Staff College, Camberley (where he passed the entrance examination with record marks) and later at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He also studied at Kings College, Cambridge.
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