Modern English biography

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