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