Modern English biography

1884. _Proc. Instit. Mechanical Engineers_ (1884) 473–4; _Min.

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