Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Edward Jacob
Edward Jacob,
NATURALIST AND ANTIQUARY,
Practised for many years as a surgeon in the town of Feversham, and devoted himself to the study of the natural history and antiquities of the neighbourhood. His services in this respect were recognised by his election as a Fellow of the Antiquarian Society in 1755. He republished the old play of "Arden of Feversham" in 1770, with a preface, in which he gave "some reasons for its being the earliest dramatic work of Shakespeare." He also published a "History of the Town and Port of Feversham," and "An account of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Feversham, with a select view of the Fossils of Sheppy." He died in 1788.
[See "Gentleman's Magazine" 1788.]