Mr Jacobs, Ray
Date of death
20 February 1974
Gender
Male
Biography
Head Preparator and taxidermist, Canterbury Museum. 1940 Ray Jacobs joined the staff of the Museum at 34 as a Preparator. Son, father and grandfather of Taxidermists, Ray constructed the Christchurch Street Exhibition. Along side taxidermy he constructed the foregrounds and painted the Edgar Stead Hall of New Zealand birds (1956). Ray retired in 1972 and died in 1974, about six weeks after a bedside investiture by the Governor General as an Officer in the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
All worked as taxidermist - John Adnet Jacobs (born 1853) -> Ray Jacobs (John's youngest son) -> Terry Jacobs (Rays youngest son) -> David Jacobs (Terry's youngest son)
All worked as taxidermist - John Adnet Jacobs (born 1853) -> Ray Jacobs (John's youngest son) -> Terry Jacobs (Rays youngest son) -> David Jacobs (Terry's youngest son)
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