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.