JACKSON, Basil. b. Glasgow 27 June 1795; ensign royal staff corps 23 Oct. 1811; attached to head quarters staff at Waterloo, of which battle he lived to be one of the 4 surviving officers; captain royal waggon train 1820; captain royal staff corps 1829 to 7 Feb. 1834 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846; professor of military surveying H.E.I. coll. Addiscombe 20 years; lived at Glewstone court near Ross, Herefordshire 1858–74, at Hillsborough, Ashfield 1874 to death; author of A course of military surveying 1838, 2 ed. 1841; England and Russia, the navy and steam warfare 1839; Elementary surveying, comprising land surveying with Gunter’s chain 1842; and with C. Rochfort Scott The military life of the duke of Wellington 2 vols. 1840. d. Ross 23 Oct. 1889. Graphic 9 Nov. 1889 pp. 563, 564, portrait.
JACKSON, Catherine Hannah Charlotte (dau. of Thomas Elliott of Wakefield). m. at St. Helena 1856 Sir George Jackson 1785–1861; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1874; edited The Diaries and letters of sir G. Jackson 1872; The Bath archives: a further selection from The Diaries 1873; author of Fair Lusitania 1874; Old Paris, its court and literary saloons 2 vols. 1878; The old regime: court, salons and theatres 2 vols. 1880; The French court and society. Reign of Louis XVI. and First empire 2 vols. 1881; The Court of the Tuileries from the restoration to the flight of Louis Philippe 2 vols. 1883; The Court of France in the 16th century 2 vols. 1886; The last of the Valois 2 vols. 1887; The first of the Bourbons 2 vols. 1890. d. Bath 9 Dec. 1891. Times 11 Dec. 1891 p. 6.
JACKSON, Charles (3 son of James Jackson, banker, Doncaster). b. 25 July 1809; barrister L.I. 6 May 1834; banker Doncaster; borough treasurer 1838 to death; helped to establish Doncaster free library 1868; edited for the Surtees Soc., Diary of Abraham de la Pryme 1870, The autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton 1875 and Yorkshire diaries and autobiographies 1877; author of Doncaster charities, past and present. Worksop 1881, with portrait of C. Jackson. d. Balby near Doncaster 1 Dec. 1882. Times 15 Dec. 1882 p. 5.
JACKSON, Charles Forbes. Entered Bombay army 1825; major 2nd regiment light cavalry 19 Oct. 1819, lieut. col. 24 April 1854 to 1 Jany. 1858; retired M.G. 1 Jany. 1858. d. 7 Aug. 1870.
JACKSON, Sir Charles Robert Mitchell (eld. son of lieut. gen. Alexander Cosby Jackson of Dawlish, Devon). b. Trincomali 1814; ed. at Warminster; barrister L.I. 29 April 1836; advocate general at Bengal 1848; puisne judge of supreme court of Bombay, Feb. 1853; knighted by patent 2 Dec. 1852; transferred to court of Calcutta 1855; member of legislative council of India 1859; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862, resigned 1863; chairman of Bombay bank commission 1868; auditor of the Indian home accounts 1872–4; author of A vindication of the marquis of Dalhousie’s Indian administration 1865. d. 2 Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 21 July 1874. Law Times, lvii 276 (1874); I.L.N. lxv 115, 210 (1874).
JACKSON, Rev. Edward Dudley. b. near Warminster, Wilts. 1803; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1827; C. of St. Matthew’s ch. Manchester 1830; English master of gram. sch. Manchester; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Manchester 21 Dec. 1837–1844; R. of St. Thomas, Heaton Norris near Stockport 1844 to death; edited Goldsmith’s History of England 1844; author of The Crucifixion and other poems 1833, 3 ed. 1834; The Devotional year, or the companion to the liturgy 1835, 2 ed. 1839; Scripture history 1837; Lays of Palestine 1850; Nugæ Lyricæ 1871. d. 27 Dec. 1879. bur. Cheltenham. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 44–8.
JACKSON, Elphinstone (son of Welby Brown Jackson, judge of Sudder court, Calcutta). b. 14 March 1824; entered Bengal civil service 1842; judge of high court of judicature at Fort William 25 May 1865 to death. d. Upton park, Slough 3 Feb. 1873. Law Times, liv 334 (1873).
JACKSON, Emmanuel. b. 1818; gimp manufacturer at Derby, retired; the best known aeronaut in the Midland counties, made very numerous ascents; in Australia 1878; went up from the Arboretum, Derby in the Evening Star balloon with his dau. in a thunder storm 25 June 1883; shot his wife Hannah Jackson aged 60 and then himself at 102 Burton road, Derby 26 June 1883, he d. 27 June. Derby Mercury 27 June 1883 p. 5 and 4 July p. 2.
JACKSON, George. b. South Devon 1792; ed. at Ashburton school, studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1813; an original member of Microscopical society 1840, president 1852–54: stood alone in contrivance and fabrication of ruled glass micrometers, which he supplied to every optician of eminence for 15 years; a manager of London Institution 1858; author of On micrometers 1847. d. 30 Church st. Spitalfields 15 Jany. 1861. I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1861 p. 315, portrait.
JACKSON, Sir George (youngest son of rev. Thomas Jackson, D.D. 1745–97, canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath.). b. Oct. 1785; attached to mission at Berlin 1802–6; sec. of legation and chargé d’affaires at Berlin 1807–8 and 1813–15; sec. to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1816; comr. at Washington for settlement of American claims, April 1823 to 1827; commissary judge at Sierra Leone, Jany. 1828, at Rio Janeiro 19 July 1832, at Surinam, Aug. 1841, at Loanda Dec. 1845, retired 1859; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Sep. 1832. d. Boulogne 2 May 1861.