Sir
Roland
Ellis
Jacobs
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Joshua Jacobs
and Caroline (Ellis) Jacobs
Brother of
Elizabeth Ellis Jacobs, Lydia Emily Jacobs, Dorothea Jacobs, Agnes Lilian Jacobs and Michael Charles Jacobs
Husband of
Olga (Hertzberg) Jacobs
— married
29 Aug 1917 (to 20 Mar 1969) in New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Husband of
Esther (Solomon) Jacobs MBE
— married
30 Nov 1970 (to 28 Jun 1981) in Leabrook, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died
at age 90
in Leabrook, South Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Feb 2017
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Biography
Roland Ellis was born on 28 February 1891 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Caroline Jacobs and Samuel Joshua Jacobs.[1]
He married Olga Herztberg in 1917.[1] They had two daughters and a son.[1]
Roland was knighted for services to literature and education in 1963.
Olga died in March 1969 in Adelaide.[1]
Roland remarried on 30 November 1970, to Esther Cook.[1]
Roland died on 28 June 1981 in Leabrook, Adelaide.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Alison Painter, 'Jacobs, Sir Roland Ellis (1891–1981)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jacobs-sir-roland-ellis-12691/text22877, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 26 February 2017 by Clare Spring.
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