JACK, REV. WILLIAM (son of rev. William Jack, D.D.) _b._ Northmavin, Shetland 1768; ed. at Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen, D.D. 1815; M.D. of Edin.; professor in Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen 1794, sub-principal and professor of moral philosophy Dec. 1800, principal 1815 to death; mayor of Aberdeen. _d._ King’s coll. Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1854. _The Aberdeen Herald 25 Feb. 1854 p._ 6.
JACKMAN, HENRY. _b._ about 1786; manager of Northampton theatrical circuit 45 years. _d._ Northampton 30 Sep. 1852 aged 66. _The Era 10 Oct. 1852 p._ 12.
JACKSON, REV. ARTHUR GREGORY. _b._ 1844; ed. at Lichfield theol. coll. to 1868; C. of Wolverhampton coll. ch. 1868–72; in charge of St. Andrew, W. Bromwich 1872–5; C. of St. Thomas, Regent st. London 1875–82; hon. chaplain Newport market refuge 1878; chaplain and warden of Philanthropic Soc. farm sch. Redhill, Surrey 1882 to death; proprietor of the Leicester Journal to death; author of A penny pocket book of prayers and hymns 1867; The missioner’s manual of anecdotes 1876; The history of St. Thomas’s church, Regent st. 1881; The missioner’s hymnal 1884; The missioner’s book of sermon notes and illustrations 1890; _hanged_ himself at Redhill 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 14.
JACKSON, ARTHUR HERBERT. _b._ 1852; student R. Acad. of music 1872, won Lucas medal for composition, professor of harmony and composition 1878 to death; composer of Fugue in E for two performers on the piano 1874; Toccata for the piano 1875; In a boat: barcarolle for the pianoforte 1878; Lord Ullin’s daughter: chorus 1879; Andante con variazione for two performers on the piano 1880; The Siren’s song for female voices 1885; The Bride of Abydos, an overture; Jason and the golden fleece. A cantata. _d._ 4 Oxford and Cambridge mansions, London 27 Sep. 1881. _Musical Times 1 Nov. 1881 p._ 581.
JACKSON, BASIL. _b._ Glasgow 27 June 1795; ensign royal staff corps 23 Oct. 1811; attached to head quarters staff at Waterloo, of which battle he lived to be one of the 4 surviving officers; captain royal waggon train 1820; captain royal staff corps 1829 to 7 Feb. 1834 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846; professor of military surveying H.E.I. coll. Addiscombe 20 years; lived at Glewstone court near Ross, Herefordshire 1858–74, at Hillsborough, Ashfield 1874 to death; author of A course of military surveying 1838, 2 ed. 1841; England and Russia, the navy and steam warfare 1839; Elementary surveying, comprising land surveying with Gunter’s chain 1842; and with C. Rochfort Scott The military life of the duke of Wellington 2 vols. 1840. _d._ Ross 23 Oct. 1889. _Graphic 9 Nov. 1889 pp._ 563, 564, _portrait_.
JACKSON, CATHERINE HANNAH CHARLOTTE (dau. of Thomas Elliott of Wakefield). _m._ at St. Helena 1856 Sir George Jackson 1785–1861; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1874; edited The Diaries and letters of sir G. Jackson 1872; The Bath archives: a further selection from The Diaries 1873; author of Fair Lusitania 1874; Old Paris, its court and literary saloons 2 vols. 1878; The old regime: court, salons and theatres 2 vols. 1880; The French court and society. Reign of Louis XVI. and First empire 2 vols. 1881; The Court of the Tuileries from the restoration to the flight of Louis Philippe 2 vols. 1883; The Court of France in the 16th century 2 vols. 1886; The last of the Valois 2 vols. 1887; The first of the Bourbons 2 vols. 1890. _d._ Bath 9 Dec. 1891. _Times 11 Dec. 1891 p._ 6.
JACKSON, CHARLES (_3 son of James Jackson, banker, Doncaster_). _b._ 25 July 1809; barrister L.I. 6 May 1834; banker Doncaster; borough treasurer 1838 to death; helped to establish Doncaster free library 1868; edited for the Surtees Soc., Diary of Abraham de la Pryme 1870, The autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton 1875 and Yorkshire diaries and autobiographies 1877; author of Doncaster charities, past and present. Worksop 1881, with portrait of C. Jackson. _d._ Balby near Doncaster 1 Dec. 1882. _Times 15 Dec. 1882 p._ 5.
JACKSON, CHARLES FORBES. Entered Bombay army 1825; major 2nd regiment light cavalry 19 Oct. 1819, lieut. col. 24 April 1854 to 1 Jany. 1858; retired M.G. 1 Jany. 1858. _d._ 7 Aug. 1870.
JACKSON, SIR CHARLES ROBERT MITCHELL (eld. son of lieut. gen. Alexander Cosby Jackson of Dawlish, Devon). _b._ Trincomali 1814; ed. at Warminster; barrister L.I. 29 April 1836; advocate general at Bengal 1848; puisne judge of supreme court of Bombay, Feb. 1853; knighted by patent 2 Dec. 1852; transferred to court of Calcutta 1855; member of legislative council of India 1859; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862, resigned 1863; chairman of Bombay bank commission 1868; auditor of the Indian home accounts 1872–4; author of A vindication of the marquis of Dalhousie’s Indian administration 1865. _d._ 2 Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 21 July 1874. _Law Times_, _lvii_ 276 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 115, 210 (1874).
JACKSON, REV. EDWARD DUDLEY. _b._ near Warminster, Wilts. 1803; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1827; C. of St. Matthew’s ch. Manchester 1830; English master of gram. sch. Manchester; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Manchester 21 Dec. 1837–1844; R. of St. Thomas, Heaton Norris near Stockport 1844 to death; edited Goldsmith’s History of England 1844; author of The Crucifixion and other poems 1833, 3 ed. 1834; The Devotional year, or the companion to the liturgy 1835, 2 ed. 1839; Scripture history 1837; Lays of Palestine 1850; Nugæ Lyricæ 1871. _d._ 27 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Cheltenham. _Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 44–8.
JACKSON, ELPHINSTONE (son of Welby Brown Jackson, judge of Sudder court, Calcutta). _b._ 14 March 1824; entered Bengal civil service 1842; judge of high court of judicature at Fort William 25 May 1865 to death. _d._ Upton park, Slough 3 Feb. 1873. _Law Times_, _liv_ 334 (1873).
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 1859. _d._ 10 Baring crescent, Exeter 26 May 1866 aged 84.
JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ Hurley Bottom near Henley on Thames 1815; enlisted in grenadier guards 1831, serjeant, retired 1846; taught fencing and boxing at Mahmoud’s gymnasium, Brighton 1847–50, where Tom Sayers was his pupil; exhibited feats of dexterity and strength with the sword before the Queen at Holland house; the originator of assaults at arms, opening at Saville house, Leicester sq. where he held assaults 3 times a week and gave lessons in fencing and boxing, C. Dickens and Albert Smith were his pupils; immortalised in Bleak House as George the Trooper, Dickens gave him the name of General Jackson which stuck to him; taught fencing, etc. at Cambridge during term time from 1855 to his death. _d._ Cambridge 25 Dec. 1878. _Bell’s Life in London 4 Jany. 1879 p._ 12.
JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ 1 July 1812; cornet 4 Bengal light cavalry 26 June 1830, captain 1849–58; captain 3 European light cavalry 1858, major 1861–4; second in command 2 regiment irregular cavalry 1842, commandant 24 Feb. 1848–64; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9 and on Peshawar frontier 1851–2, twice wounded during the mutiny 1857; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1863; L.G. 17 Nov. 1879; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ St. Helen’s, Preston, Brighton 26 April 1889.