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.