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.
JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ about 1782; entered Madras army 1800;
colonel 7 Madras N.I. 26 Nov. 1834 to death; general 13 March