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).
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.
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