{{Short description|English organist, conductor, and composer}} {{about||the Anglican priest|Benjamin Jacob (priest)|the American chemist|Benjamin R. Jacobs}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use British English|date=May 2012}} thumb|right '''Benjamin Jacob''' (1 April 1778 – 24 August 1829)<ref name=bdm>{{bdm|431}}</ref> was an English organist, conductor, and composer. He was a pupil of Willoughby, William Shrubsole, and Samuel Arnold (1796).<ref name=bdm/>
Jacob was born and died in London. He was an organist at various churches, finally at Surrey Chapel, Southwark (1794–1825).<ref name=bdm/> With Wesley and Crotch, he gave organ recitals to immense audiences from 1808 to 1814.<ref name=bdm/> He conducted a series of oratorios in 1800, and the Lenten Oratorios at Covent Garden in 1818.<ref name=bdm/> His works include ''National Psalmody'' (London, 1819) and other collections, as well as glees, songs, and an arrangement of the ''Macbeth'' music.<ref name=bdm/>
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