manager of William Denny hotel, Auckland 1857; visited San
Francisco, U.S. of America and Australia 1862; appeared at
Drury Lane in Heads of the People; at the Surrey theatre in
Queen’s Evidence; a music hall artist giving clever sketches of
character; engaged at Drury Lane under A. Harris’ management
acted Moss Jewell in The World 31 July 1880 and Larry O’Phesey
in Youth, 6 Aug. 1881; his embodiment of the part of Napoleon
I. whom he much resembled, attracted great notice; directed
the Opera Comique during Lotta’s performances 23 Dec. 1883 to
1884; played at the Pavilion theatre 12 Aug. 1885 as Moss Jewell
in The World. _d._ from taking an overdose of morphia at 45
Great Russell st. London 13 Aug. 1885. _bur._ Jewish cemetery,
Willesden 19 Aug. _Era 15 Aug. 1885 p._ 8, _22 Aug. p._ 8; _The
Stage_, _i_ 25 (1874), _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. & Dram. News
22 Aug. 1885 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_.
JACKSON, HENRY (son of a brewer at Boston). _b._ Boston 15
April 1831; ed. at Sleaford and Boston gram. schools; became
an invalid 1849; author of A dead man’s revenge, in Chambers’
Journal vol. 30; A first friendship, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 66
and 67, reissued in 1 vol. 1863; Gilbert Rugge, in Fraser’s
Mag. vols. 69–73, reissued in 3 vols. 1866, both novels were
reprinted in America; A dangerous guest 1870; Hearth Ghosts
1871; Argus Fairburn 3 vols. 1874, all his books were anonymous
except the last. _d._ Hampstead 24 May 1879.
JACKSON, HENRY JAMES. _b._ London 5 Sep. 1824; apprenticed to
Otway and Warmington 1840–7; with sir J. Whitworth, Manchester
1849–51; engineer in service of North of Europe steam navigation
co. 1851; engineer in W. S. Lindsay and co.’s steamship
Harbinger in India 1855–9; engineer of John Penn between Dover
and Calais 1859–65; superintendent of arsenal at Alexandria
and engineer of Khedive’s steam yacht Mahroussa the fastest
steamer afloat 1865–74; created a Bey as Jackson Bey; engineer
of General steam navigation co.’s fleet of 64 steamers with a
factory of 500 men 1874 to death; invented an improved propeller
adopted by many steam boat companies; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1873 and
M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1876. _d._ Deptford 2 Nov.
1884. _Proc. Instit. Mechanical Engineers_ (1884) 473–4; _Min.
of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx_ 332–3 (1885).
JACKSON, SIR HENRY MATHER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Wm.
Jackson, 1 baronet 1805–76). _b._ 23 July 1831; ed. at Harrow
and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I.
17 Nov. 1855, bencher 15 April 1875 to death; one of the two
leaders of palatine court of Lancaster; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873;
practised in V. C. Bacon’s court 1873–81; justice of Queen’s
bench division 2 March 1881 but died without taking his seat;
contested Birkenhead 13 July 1865; M.P. Coventry 1867–8 when
unseated, and 1874 to 1881. _d._ 61 Portland place, London
8 March 1881. _bur._ Birkenhead cemetery 14 March. _I.L.N.
lxxviii_ 281 (1881), _portrait_.
JACKSON, SIR JAMES (3 son of col. George Jackson of North Mayo
1761–1805). _b._ 1790; ensign 83 foot 29 Oct 1806; served in the
Peninsula 1809–14 and at Waterloo; served in India and Arabia
1819–26; major 6 dragoon guards 1827, lieut. col. 2 March 1839
to 21 May 1850; commander in chief Cape of Good Hope 1854–9;
col. of 6 dragoons 11 June 1856, of 6 dragoon guards 17 July
1860 and of 1 dragoon guards 21 Jany. 1868 to death; general 6
Feb. 1865; K.H. 1837; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 20 March 1865.
_d._ Westwood, Manchester 31 Dec. 1871. _I.L.N. lx_ 50 (1872).
JACKSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ 1796; the first student admitted
at St. Bees theol. coll. 6 Jany. 1817; P.C. of Rivington,
Bolton-le-Moors 1823–56; lived at Summer Hill, Sandwith, St.
Bees; was accustomed to ascend the Pillar rock, Ennerdale,
Cumberland on the 1 May every year and was known as the
Patriarch of the Pillarites; went up on 1 May 1878, fell down
250 yards, dead body found on 3 May 400 yards from the Pillar
rock, aged 82. _Graphic 18 May 1878 pp._ 479, 480, _portrait and
view of Pillar rock_; _Cumberland Pacquet, Whitehaven 7 May 1878
p._ 2.
JACKSON, JOHN (son of a farmer). _b._ Tunstall near Catterick
Bridge, Feb. 1828; helped his father in buying and selling
cattle and sheep; a book maker, won £27,000 on Ellington winner
of the Derby 1856; purchased Tim Whiffler from Mr. O’Hara 1861
and won with him £10,000 on the Chester cup and the Queen’s vase
at Ascot 1862; purchased Blair Athol for £7,500 guineas from
Wm. I’Anson 1864, sold him to Wm. Blenkiron for 5000 guineas
1868; proprietor of Fairfield house and paddocks 1863 and made
it a stud farm, all his horses sold 1868 producing £28,500.
_d._ Fairfield 2 Feb. 1869. _Sporting Times 29 Aug. 1885 p._ 2;
_Saddle and Sirloin. By the Druid. Part North_ (1870) 209–15.
JACKSON, JOHN. _b._ Crossedale Beck, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1793;
assist. schoolmaster Bristol to 1821; master of the Friends’
seminary at Academy court, Warrington 1821–53; contributed
to the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Diary, solutions of difficult
mathematical problems; made MS. collections on the dialects of
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Cumberland; his old
pupils purchased for him an annuity 1853; author of Rational
amusement for winter evenings or a collection of puzzles and
paradoxes with their solutions 1821; his library of 1900 volumes
purchased and presented by Mr. McMinnies to the Warrington
library June 1876. _d._ Academy st. Warrington 27 Sep. 1875.
_bur._ Friends’ ground, Penketh 1 Oct. _J. Kendrick’s Profiles
of Warrington Worthies_ (1854), _p._ 7 _plate_ 3, _portrait_;
_Warrington Examiner 2 Oct. 1875 p._ 2, _3 June 1876 p._ 2.
JACKSON, RIGHT REV. JOHN (son of Henry Jackson of St. Pancras,
London, merchant). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1811; ed. at Reading
gram. school and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D.
1853, D.D. 1853; head master of proprietary gr. sch. Islington
1833–46; P.C. of St. James’s, Muswell Hill 1842–6; select
preacher to univ. of Ox. 1845, 1850, 1862 and 1866; R. of St.
James’s, Piccadilly 1846 to 1853; chaplain to the Queen 18 June
1847 to 1853; canon of Bristol 1852–3; Boyle lecturer 1853;
bishop of Lincoln 24 March 1853, consecrated in Lambeth church
5 May 1853, translated to see of London 4 Jany. 1869; dean of
her majesty’s chapels royal 29 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 13
May 1869; aided in establishment of diocese of St. Albans 1877
and rearrangement of dioceses of Rochester and Winchester;
encouraged organisation of lay help and created a diocesan
conference; wrote the Commentary and notes on the Pastoral
Epistles in The Speaker’s Commentary vol. iii (1881); author of
The sanctifying influence of the Holy Ghost is indispensable to
human salvation, Ellerton essay 1834; Six sermons on the leading
points of the christian character 1844; The sinfulness of little
sins: a course of sermons 1849; The nemesis of unbelief 1866
and 25 other works. _d._ Fulham palace 6 Jany. 1885. _Church
portrait Journal_, _ii_ 89 (1881), _portrait_; _Our bishops and
deans, by Rev. F. Arnold_, _i_ 340–57 (1875); _I.L.N. liv_ 135,
137 (1869), _portrait_.
JACKSON, REV. JOHN EDWARD (2 son of James Jackson of Doncaster,
banker). _b._ 12 Nov. 1805; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Leigh Delamere with Sevington,
Wilts. 1845 to death; V. of Norton Coleparle, Wilts. 1846
to death; hon. canon of Bristol 1855 to death; librarian to
marquis of Bath; F.S.A. 19 March 1857; author of The history
of Grittleton, co. Wilts. 1843; Kingston House, Bradford.
Devizes 1854; History of Longleat. Devizes 1857; Swindon and
its neighbourhood. Devizes 1861 and 12 other books; ed. John
Aubrey’s Wiltshire topographical collection 1862 and other
books; ed. for Roxburgh club The Glastonbury inquisition of A.D.
1189, 1882. _d._ Leigh Delamere 6 March 1891.
JACKSON, JOHN NAPPER. _b._ 1793; lieut. 94 foot 1 Jany. 1806;
major 99 foot 11 June 1829, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 26 Oct.
1858; M.G. 26 Aug. 1858; col. 3 West India regiment 13 Aug.
1862, col. 99 foot 8 June 1863 to death. _d._ St. Heliers,
Jersey 25 Jany. 1866.
JACKSON, JOHN RICHARDSON (2 son of E. Jackson of Portsmouth,
banker). _b._ Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1819; pupil of Robert Graves
A.R.A.; engraved ‘The Otter and Salmon’ after sir Edwin Landseer
1847; engraved numerous portraits after George Richmond, R.A.,
and several after J. P. Knight, R.A.; engraved ‘St. John the
Baptist’ after the picture by Murillo in the National Gallery;
exhibited 27 engravings at the R.A. 1854–76; resided at Adelaide
road, South Hampstead. _d._ of fever at Southsea 10 May 1877.
JACKSON, JOSEPH DEVONSHER (eld. son of Strettel Jackson of
Petersborough, co. Cork, landwaiter). _b._ Cork 23 June 1783;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1832; called to
Irish bar 1806; bencher of King’s Inns 1835; hon. sec. Kildare
Place soc. from establishment 1811 to 1830; chairman of co.
Londonderry quarter sessions 1830 to Dec. 1834; serjeant 1826,
third serjeant 1835, second serjeant 23 May 1835 to 10 Nov.
1841; solicitor general for Ireland 10 Nov. 1841 to 9 Sep. 1842;
judge of Irish court of common pleas 9 Sep. 1842 to death; P.O.
Ireland 1842; M.P. for Bandon 1835–42; M.P. for univ. of Dublin,
Feb. to Sep. 1842, he was the chief antagonist in house of
commons of D. O’Connell. _d._ Sutton house, Howth near Dublin
19 Dec. 1857. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 381–3;
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen_ (1836) _1
series_, _portrait_ 15.
JACKSON, JULIAN (son of Wm. Turner Jackson of Westminster).
_b._ 30 March 1790; ed. at R.M. Acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut.
Bengal artillery 26 Sep. 1808, 1 lieut. 1809–13; lieut. on
quartermaster’s staff of Russian imperial suite 2 June 1815,
served with it in France to 1818; served in grenadier brigade
of quartermaster general’s staff 1819–25; col. in Russian army
14 Aug. 1829, retired 21 Sep. 1830; comr. and correspondent
in London for Russian department of manufactures 1830 to about
1847; sec. of Royal Geog. Soc. London 1841 to Feb. 1847; a clerk
under council of education about 1847 to death; F.R.S. 3 April
1845; a knight of St. Stanislaus of Poland; author of Guide du
Voyageur. Paris 1822, several editions, reproduced in English
as What to observe, or the traveller’s remembrancer. By J. R.
Jackson 1841, 3 ed. 1861. _d._ 52 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London
16 March 1853.
JACKSON, SIR LOUIS STEWART (son of lieut. col. Henry George
Jackson, R.A.). _b._ Woolwich 14 Jany. 1824; educ. at R. sch.
Enniskillen, at Haileybury coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin;
entered Bengal C.S. 1843; employed under the government in the
Straits settlements 1847–50; puisne judge high court, Calcutta,
July 1862, acting chief justice 1878, retired June 1880; C.I.E.
1 Jany. 1878; knighted at Windsor castle 1 Dec. 1880; fellow of
Calcutta univ.; F.R.G.S.; purchased Hadleigh hall, Suffolk 1883
and _d._ there 9 April 1890.
JACKSON, RALPH WARD (3 son of Wm. Ward Jackson of Normanby
hall near Middlesbro on Tees, _d._ 2 Feb. 1842 aged 63). _b._
Normanby hall 7 June 1806; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at Stockton
to 1854; chairman of Stockton and Hartlepool union railway;
conceived idea of forming a railway from Stockton to Hartlepool
by ‘way leaves,’ that is with consent of owners of land without
an act of parliament, which was done and the line opened 1841;
made a harbour and dock on west side of bay of Hartlepool named
West Hartlepool and opened 1 June 1847; chairman of the West
Hartlepool harbour and railway company 1852–62, population of
West Hartlepool rose from 400 in 1840 to about 4000 in 1847 and
15,000 in 1862; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; contested Armagh city
15 Jany. 1835, and Hartlepool 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Hartlepool
1868–74. _d._ Albion st. Hyde park, London 6 Aug. 1880. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_ 328–32 (1881); _I.L.N. xxvii_
517, 518 (1855), _portrait_.
JACKSON, RICHARD HENRY (only son of rev. Richard Jackson of
Abergele, Denbigh). _b._ 1812 or 1813; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Newmarket, Flintshire 1851–9;
R. of Llanellian, Denbighshire 1859 to death; author of Welsh
Highland agriculture: a prize essay at Rhuddlan Eisteddfod 1850;
Comparaison of the working classes of England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales: a prize essay at Tremadoc Eisteddfod 1851. _d._ 10
Jany. 1867.
JACKSON, ROBERT. Entered navy 20 April 1781; commander of the
Bonne Citoyenne in which he captured the Spanish privateer Vives
31 Dec. 1800; gold medal 1801 for services during campaign in
Egypt; captain 29 April 1802, R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 8 March
1847. _d._ 21 Hornton st. Kensington 3 June 1852. _O’Byrne’s
Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 573.
JACKSON, afterwards SCORESBY-JACKSON, ROBERT EDMUND (son of
Thomas Jackson of Whitby, captain of a Greenland whaler). _b._
Whitby 22 Oct. 1833; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, univ.
of Edin. and Paris; L.S.A. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1855; M.D. Edin.
1857; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1859; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; F.R.C.P. Edin.
1862; lectured upon materia medica in Surgeons’ hall, Edin.;
phys. to royal infirmary, Edin. 1865 to death, lecturer on
clinical medicine; assumed additional name of Scoresby; author
of The life of William Scoresby 1861; Medical Climatology 1862;
Note-book of materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics 1866,
4 ed. Edin. 1880. _d._ of typhus fever 32 Queen’s st. Edin. 1
Feb. 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi_ 197–8 (1869).
JACKSON, SAMUEL (4 child of Thomas Jackson of Sancton, East
Yorkshire, farm labourer and mole-catcher, _d._ 1829 aged 83).
_b._ Sancton 10 Feb. 1786; Wesleyan M. minister at Brecon 1806–7
and successively at 17 other places 1807 to death; president
of Wesleyan conference at Liverpool 1847; house governor of
theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1848–55; edited
The Reporter 1842; The Wesleyan vindicator 1850; author of
Catechumens in the Wesleyan church 1850; The Wesleyan people
or the great power and true policy of the private members of
that body 1853; Ministers and children or the givers of early
evangelical instruction 1853. _d._ Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861.
_Sermons by S. Jackson. With a memoir by T. Jackson_ (1863)
_ix–lxxxii_; _Wesleyan Methodist Mag. Sep. 1861 p._ 842.
JACKSON, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Jackson of Bristol, merchant).
_b._ Bristol 31 Dec. 1794; pupil of Francis Danby, A.R.A. at
Bristol; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 10 Feb.
1823, withdrew in 1848, after having exhibited 46 pictures;
one of founders of a sketching society at Bristol 1833; his
water-colours are nearly all of English scenery; sent many
Swiss views in oil to Bristol annual exhibitions; exhibited 1
landscape at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1828–43. _d._ Clifton 8
Dec. 1869. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society_,
_i_ 432 _etc._, _ii_ 87, 452 (1891).
JACKSON, STEPHEN (son of Postle Jackson). _b._ Ipswich 1808; ed.
at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Camb., scholar;
26 wrangler 1830, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; succeeded his father
as proprietor and editor of Ipswich journal; a student of the
arts and architecture; wrote Architectural notes on church
of hospital of St. Cross in Journal British Archæol. Assoc.
Winchester volume 401–406. _d._ St. Lawrence, Ipswich 16 Feb.
1855.
JACKSON, THOMAS (brother of rev. Samuel Jackson 1786–1861).
_b._ Sancton, Yorkshire 12 Dec. 1783; apprenticed to a
carpenter 1798; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1801; Wesleyan
minister Spilsby 1804–5 and at 10 other places 1805 to death;
editor of Wesleyan press publications 1824–43; president of
Wesleyan conferences 1838–9 and 1849–50; professor of divinity
at theological college, Richmond, Surrey 1843–61; author of
The life of John Goodwin 1822, new ed. 1872; The centenary of
Wesleyan Methodism 1839; Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley 2
vols. 1841 and other books; edited The works of the Rev. John
Wesley 14 vols. 1829–31; A library of Christian biography 12
vols. 1837–40 and other books. _d._ 29 St. Stephen’s road,
Hammersmith, London 10 March 1873. _T. Jackson’s Recollections
of my own life_ (1873), _portrait_; _F. Ross’s Celebrities of
Yorkshire Wolds_ (1878) 84–8.
JACKSON, THOMAS. _b._ 1808; a labourer on the Birmingham canal
1816; contractor on Birmingham and Derby railway 1837 and on
Chester and Crewe 1840; renovated and improved Caledonian canal
1843–7; constructed the Tyne dock near Jarrow 1854; made the
Alderney breakwater one mile into the sea at a great depth
1847–72, the Alderney harbour defences and the breakwater at St.
Catharine’s bay, Jersey; constructed the Harrogate water works.
_d._ Eltham park, Eltham, Kent 3 Jany. 1885. _Iron 16 Jany. 1885
p._ 53; _Times 13 Jany. 1885 p._ 6.
JACKSON, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Jackson 1783–1873). _b._
Preston, or Richmond, Surrey 1812; ed. at St. Saviour’s sch.
Southwark and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; V. of
St. Peter’s, Stepney 1838–44; principal of national society’s
training college, Battersea 1844–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1850
to death; nominated bishop of Lyttleton, New Zealand 1850, went
out there but was never consecrated; R. of Stoke Newington 1852
to death, built a new parish church 1858; edited The English
journal of education 1843; author with J. D. Giles of a jeu
d’esprit entitled Uniomachia or the battle at the Union, an
Homeric fragment, lately given to the world by Habbakukius
Dunderheadius [T. Jackson], and now rendered into the English
tongue by Jedediah Puzzlepate [J. D. Giles]. Oxford 1833, 3 ed.
London 1875; Our dumb companions 1864; Curiosities of the pulpit
1868; The narrative of the fire of London, freely handled on
the principles of modern rationalism. By P. Maritzburg 1869,
and other books. _d._ the rectory, Stoke Newington 18 March
1886. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859),
_portrait xiii_.
JACKSON, THOMAS. _b._ Oldham; organist of St. Peter’s chapel,
Oldham 1821; leader of Oldham musical soc.; leader of Oldham
borough choral soc.; violinist; member of Philharmonic concerts,
Liverpool 1856; arranged orchestral parts to Dr. Green’s God is
our hope and strength. _E. Butterworth’s Oldham_ (1856) 254.
JACKSON, THOMAS CARR (son of John Jackson, surgeon, Paradise
st. Rotherhithe). _b._ Yorkshire 4 Jany. 1823; ed. at Merchant
Taylors’ school; studied at St. Thomas’ hospital; M.R.C.S. 1845,
F.R.C.S. 1857; surgeon to the Great Northern and Orthopedic
hospitals; president of Harveian soc.; performed operation
of lithotomy 23 times with great success; wrote Cursory
observations on lithotomy, in St. Thomas’ hospital reports 1870;
author of Circumscribed abscess of bone 1867. _d._ 91 Harley st.
London 23 April 1878. _Medical Times_, _i_ 493 (1878); _Proc. of
Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 384 (1880).
JACKSON, THOMAS CHARLES. _b._ 1832; ed. The Medical Directory
for J. and A. Churchill 11 New Burlington st. London 1860 to
death. _d._ 159 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 15 Jany.
1890.
JACKSON, THOMAS THOMSON. _b._ 1798; amanuensis to Dugald
Stewart; crown professor of biblical criticism and theology in
St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 1836–51; ordained a presbyterian
minister, preached at the settlement of Dr. Hew Scott at West
Anstruther, his only sermon; professor of ecclesiastical
history, Glasgow univ. 1851 to 1874, Emeritus professor 1874 to
death. _d._ St. Andrews 24 Dec. 1878. _The Scotsman 26 Dec. 1878
p._ 4.
JACKSON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1822; lived at Kennieside, Cumberland;
wrestled at Flatt, Cumberland 1839 when he threw Chapman, Gordon
and Nelson; threw all his competitors at Liverpool, Preston,
Manchester, etc. 1840; won the heavy weight prizes at Carlisle
1841–4; beat Nicol for the championship, Liverpool 1842; won 17
prizes in 1843; threw Tom Longmire at Keswick 1845; wrestled for
the last time 1851 at Ulverston with Robert Atkinson for £300
when he was defeated in presence of 10,000 persons; his record
is almost unsurpassed, he stood 6 feet 1 inch and weighed 14
stone. _d._ Wythop hall 21 Nov. 1856. _Bell’s Life in London 23
Nov. 1856 p._ 6.
JACKSON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Jackson of Masham, Yorkshire,
miller). _b._ Masham 9 Jany. 1816; a journeyman miller; an
amateur organ builder; taught himself to play on 15 musical
instruments; organist of Masham ch. 1832 at £30 a year; partner
with a tallow-chandler 1839–52; a music-seller at Bradford 1852
to death; organist of St. John’s ch. Bradford 1852–6 and of
Horton lane chapel 1856–66; conductor of Bradford choral union;
chorus master of Bradford musical festivals 1853, 56 and 59,
conductor of Festival choral soc. 1856 to death; with his choir
of 210 singers performed before Queen at Buckingham palace 1858;
author of A manual of singing; composer of For joy let fertile
valleys sing: an anthem 1839; The sisters of the sea: glee.
First prize Huddersfield glee club 1840; Deliverance of Israel
from Babylon: an oratorio 3 parts 1844–5; Isaiah: an oratorio
1851; The year: a cantata 1859; The praise of music: a symphony
1866, and upwards of 20 other pieces of music. _d._ Ashgrove,
Bradford 15 April 1866. _Bradford Observer 19 April 1866 p._ 4
_and 26 April p._ 5.
NOTE.--His son William Jackson _b._ 1853, organist Edinburgh, _d._
there 1877.
JACKSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Jackson of
Warrington, Lancs., surgeon 1772–1811). _b._ Warrington 28
April 1805; member of firm of Hamilton, Jackson & Co., African
merchants to 1841; chairman of Chester and Birkenhead railway;
chief partner in Clay-cross colliery near Chesterfield;
constructed with Thomas Brassey many of the chief railways in
Italy and Grand trunk railway of Canada; M.P. Newcastle under
Lyne 1847–65; M.P. North Derbyshire 1865–8; one of the founders
of Birkenhead 1845; created baronet 4 Nov. 1869; A.I.C.E. 7
Dec. 1852. _d._ 61 Portland place, London 30 or 31 Jany. 1876,
personalty sworn under £700,000, 11 March 1876. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xlv_ 252–56 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167, 263
(1876).
JACKSON, WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Jackson, R. of Grasmere,
Westmoreland). _b._ Grasmere 17 Dec. 1792; ed. at Queen’s coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1828, D.D. 1832; fellow of
his coll. 9 Dec. 1820–29, chaplain 1820, bursar 1826, tutor
1827; Whitehall preacher 1827; chancellor of Carlisle 1846–55,
archdeacon Jany. 1855 to 1863, canon 1858–63; R. of Lowther,
Westmoreland 17 April 1828 to death; R. of Cliburn, Westmoreland
1841–58; provost of Queen’s coll. 8 May 1862 to death; author
of A charge to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Carlisle
1857. _d._ Askham hall, Penrith 13 Sep. 1878. _bur._ Lowther
churchyard.
JACKSON, WILLIAM (2 son of Mr. Jackson of Liverpool). Matric.
from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1838 aged 21; B.A. 1842, M.A.
1845; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1843–8; C. of Warbleton, Sussex
1850–4; V. of Heathfield, Sussex 1858 to death; edited Stories
and catechisings in illustration of the collects 3 vols. 1852–3;
Stories and lessons on the catechism 3 vols. 1854–6; author of
Sermons preached in village churches 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The under
housemaid 1858; The history of confirmation 1877, new ed. 1881;
Parochial Sermons 1881. _d._ 18 July 1885.
JACKSON, WILLIAM, professional name of William Howitt. _b._
Norwich 15 Feb. 1821; ran a mile match against J. Davies and Tom
Maxfield upon the Slough road when Maxfield won, about 1844;
beat William Sheppard of Birmingham at Gannick corner near
Barnet £100 a side, doing 11 miles and 48 yards in one hour 6
Jany. 1845; winner of many prizes in England and North and South
America; known as the American Deer. _Illust. Sporting News 2
July 1864 pp._ 228, 233, _portrait_.