Modern English biography

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