Editing Ian Jacob (section)

{{short description|Former Director-General of the BBC}}
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{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = Lieutenant-General
| name          = Sir Ian Claud Jacob
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|CB}}
| image         = File:LC-USZ62-104901 (24069042903) (cropped) (cropped).jpg
| image_size    = 
| alt           = 
| caption       = Jacob as a brigadier at the [[Casablanca Conference]] in January 1943
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1899|09|27|df=yes}}
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1993|04|24|1899|09|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Quetta]], [[Baluchistan Agency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_place   = 
| placeofburial = 
| nickname      = 
| allegiance    = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch        = {{army|United Kingdom}}
| serviceyears  = 1918–1946, 1952
| rank          = [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]
| servicenumber = 15845
| unit          = [[Royal Engineers]]
| commands      = 
| battles       = [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]]<br/>[[Second World War]]
| awards        = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]
| relations     = Field Marshal [[Claud Jacob|Sir Claud Jacob]] (father)
| laterwork     = [[Director-General of the BBC]] (1952–59)
}}

[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|CB}} (27 September 1899 – 24 April 1993), 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.