Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa, DL, JP, FSRGS (22 May 1872 – 27 February 1943), styled Earl of Cassilis until 1938, was a Scottish peer, barrister and soldier.Styled Earl of Cassilis from birth, he was born at Berkeley Square, London, the eldest son of Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa, and the Honourable Evelyn, daughter of Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge and Edinburgh University, and was admitted as an advocate in 1897.Lord Cassilis was appointed a captain in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 7 January 1900, and served in the Second Boer War 1900-02, where he won two medals and five clasps.Following the end of hostilities in early June 1902, he left Cape Town on board the SS Wakool, and arrived at Southampton the next month. He was promoted to major, and later served in the First World War. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Ayrshire and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In April 1938, aged 65, he succeeded his father in the marquessate.Lord Ailsa married Frances Emily McTaggart-Stewart, daughter of Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, 1st Baronet, on 20 April 1903. They had no children. He died in February 1943, aged 70, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Charles Kennedy, 5th Marquess of Ailsa. The Marchioness of Ailsa died in October 1949.

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Archibald Hamilton Jacob (31 July 1829 – 28 May 1900) was a politician in the colony of New South Wales. He served nearly thirty years in the lower and upper houses of the colonial government, as both elected and appointed representative, government minister and chairman of committees.Jacob was born in Jessore, in the Bengal Presidency of British India (now in Bangladesh). He was the second surviving son of Captain Vickers Jacob (1789–1836) and his wife Anne née Watson (1796–1836). Vickers Jacob reached the rank of captain in the Bengal Army of the East India Company, then became a merchant and landowner in the British colony of New South Wales. At the time of Archibald's birth, Captain Jacob had returned to India and was a jute planter and indigo merchant in Bengal.Archibald Jacob was orphaned in India at the age of seven by the untimely death of both his parents. His father died in Bengal in 1836 and was buried in Calcutta, and his mother Anne died later that same year in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), while on her way back to Sydney with her younger children. Archibald and his younger brother Robert had been left behind in Calcutta, where they were boarders for a time at La Martiniere, a newly established Protestant private school, before sailing to England to be brought up and educated by his mother's relatives in Nottinghamshire and Cheshire.In 1851 Archibald and Robert made their way to Australia to take up family land holdings established there by Vickers Jacob in the 1820s, during the early settlement of the Hunter Valley north of Sydney. In 1853, at Raymond Terrace in that neighborhood, he married Mary Snodgrass (1830–1897), daughter of prominent local landowner and politician Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass.Jacob was elected as the member for Lower Hunter in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and represented that district from 7 March 1872 until 9 November 1880. He succeeded Ezekiel Baker as Secretary for Mines in the Robertson Ministry in November 1877, retiring with his colleagues the following month, following the election that year. He then represented the Electoral district of Gloucester from 27 November 1880 until 23 November 1882. Jacob was nominated to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 9 October 1883, and was Chairman of Committees of that body. He was a member of the Council until his death.Archibald Jacob died in Ashfield, Sydney on 28 May 1900. He was survived by his wife Mary and five sons.