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.