Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Jacobson, William
Jacobson, William, o.s. William, of Yarmouth, Norfolk, gent. St. Edmund Hall, matric. 5 May, 1823, aged 19; scholar Lincoln Coll. 1825-7, B.A. 1827, fellow Exeter Coll. 1829-36, M.A. 1829, librarian 1830, hon. fellow 1882-4, a canon of Christ Church 1848-65, D.D. by decree 15 April, 1848, public orator 1842-8, regius professor of divinity 1848-65, treasurer 1857, hon. fellow Hertford College 1874-84, vice-principal Magdalen Hall 1832-48, select preacher 1833, 1842, 1869, master of the schools 1834-5, perpetual curate Iffley 1839-40, rector of Ewelme 1848-65, bishop of Chester 1865, until his death 1884. See Boase, 128.