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Philip Jacobson

Date of Birth: 10 September 1938

Philip Samuel Jacobson (10 September 1938 – 1 January 2018) was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his reporting for The Sunday Times Insight team of the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972. Philip Jacobson was born on 10 September 1938 to Sydney, later Baron, Jacobson, and his wife. His father was political editor of the Daily Mirror and later editor of the Daily Herald and The Sun. Jacobson was brought up in Stanmore, Middlesex, and educated in Dorset and at schools elsewhere. He did his national service in a tank regiment that was stationed in Malaya during the emergency. Afterwards he took a degree in politics at the London School of Economics. He married Ann Mathison in 1967 and they had two sons, both of whom work in journalism.

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