Jacob Beale is fast becoming, for HMS, a “Jac[ob] of all trades, master of many…”
Interestingly enough, and something of which many people may not be aware, the name Jacob is a cognate of the name James which has the name, Jack, commonly ascribed as a short or nickname. In the study of linguistics, cognates are words with a common etymological origin. Cognates, therefore, originate from […]