serviceyears laterwork branch relations death_date birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank article_title name
1918 -- 1945 director-general of the bbc -lrb- 1952 -- 59 -rrb- united kingdom field marshal sir claud jacob -lrb- father -rrb- 24 april 1993 quetta , pakistan united kingdom knight empire companion of the order of the bath grand cross of the order of the british north-west frontier second world war 27 september 1899 lieutenant general ian jacob
 sir edward ian claud jacob
ian jacob

lieutenant general sir edward ian claud jacob -lrb- 27 september 1899 -- 24 april 1993 -rrb- , known as ian jacob , was a british army officer , who served as the military assistant secretary to winston churchill 's war cabinet and was later a distinguished broadcasting executive , serving as the director-general of the bbc from 1952 to 1959 .
