JACKSON, George. b. about 1782; entered Madras army 1800; colonel 7 Madras N.I. 26 Nov. 1834 to death; general 13 March 1859. d. 10 Baring crescent, Exeter 26 May 1866 aged 84.
JACKSON, George. b. Hurley Bottom near Henley on Thames 1815; enlisted in grenadier guards 1831, serjeant, retired 1846; taught fencing and boxing at Mahmoud’s gymnasium, Brighton 1847–50, where Tom Sayers was his pupil; exhibited feats of dexterity and strength with the sword before the Queen at Holland house; the originator of assaults at arms, opening at Saville house, Leicester sq. where he held assaults 3 times a week and gave lessons in fencing and boxing, C. Dickens and Albert Smith were his pupils; immortalised in Bleak House as George the Trooper, Dickens gave him the name of General Jackson which stuck to him; taught fencing, etc. at Cambridge during term time from 1855 to his death. d. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1878. Bell’s Life in London 4 Jany. 1879 p. 12.
JACKSON, George. b. 1 July 1812; cornet 4 Bengal light cavalry 26 June 1830, captain 1849–58; captain 3 European light cavalry 1858, major 1861–4; second in command 2 regiment irregular cavalry 1842, commandant 24 Feb. 1848–64; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9 and on Peshawar frontier 1851–2, twice wounded during the mutiny 1857; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1863; L.G. 17 Nov. 1879; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. St. Helen’s, Preston, Brighton 26 April 1889.
JACKSON, George Vernon (eld. son of George Jackson of the Isle of Wight). b. Chalwood, Surrey 13 July 1787; midshipman in navy 1801, went on h.p. Feb. 1828; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Verno, Christchurch, Hants. 18 April 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 571.
Note.—He is said to have been the original of O’Brien in Marryat’s novel Peter Simple.
JACKSON, Harry. b. 1836; played at Auckland theatre 1856; 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).