Editing Violet Jacob (section)

==Early life==
Jacob was born '''Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine''', at the [[House of Dun]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB |title=Jacob [née Kennedy-Erskine], Violet Augusta Mary Frederica |last=Anderson |first=Carol |date=25 May 2006 |doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/58422}}</ref> the daughter of William Henry Kennedy-Erskine (1 July 1828 – 15 September 1870) of [[Dun, Angus|Dun, Forfarshire]], a captain in the [[17th Lancers]] and Catherine Jones (died 13 February 1914), the only daughter of William Jones of [[Henllys, Carmarthenshire|Henllys]], [[Carmarthenshire]]. Her father was the son of John Kennedy-Erskine (1802–1831) of [[House of Dun|Dun]] and [[Lady Augusta Gordon|Augusta FitzClarence]] (1803–1865), the illegitimate daughter of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]] and [[Dorothea Jordan|Dorothy Jordan]]. She was a great-granddaughter of [[Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa]].

The area of [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] where her family seat of [[House of Dun|Dun]] was situated was the setting for much of her fiction. She married, at St John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh, on 27 October 1894, Arthur Otway Jacob (1867–1936),<ref name=":0" /> an Irish [[Major (rank)|major]] in the [[British Army]], and accompanied him to India where he was serving. Her book ''Diaries and letters from India 1895–1900'' is about their stay in the Central Indian town of [[Mhow]]. The couple had one son, Harry, born in 1895, who died as a soldier at the [[Battle of the Somme]] in 1916. Arthur died in 1936, and Violet returned to live at [[Kirriemuir]], in Angus. She died of heart disease on 9 September 1946 and was buried beside her husband at the graveyard at Dun.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Jacob [née Kennedy-Erskine], Violet Augusta Mary Frederica (1863–1946), writer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58422|access-date=2021-01-25|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58422}}</ref>