JACKSON, GEORGE VERNON (eld. son of George Jackson of the Isle of Wight). _b._ Chalwood, Surrey 13 July 1787; midshipman in navy 1801, went on h.p. Feb. 1828; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Verno, Christchurch, Hants. 18 April 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 571.
NOTE.--He is said to have been the original of O’Brien in Marryat’s novel Peter Simple.
JACKSON, HARRY. _b._ 1836; played at Auckland theatre 1856; manager of William Denny hotel, Auckland 1857; visited San Francisco, U.S. of America and Australia 1862; appeared at Drury Lane in Heads of the People; at the Surrey theatre in Queen’s Evidence; a music hall artist giving clever sketches of character; engaged at Drury Lane under A. Harris’ management acted Moss Jewell in The World 31 July 1880 and Larry O’Phesey in Youth, 6 Aug. 1881; his embodiment of the part of Napoleon I. whom he much resembled, attracted great notice; directed the Opera Comique during Lotta’s performances 23 Dec. 1883 to 1884; played at the Pavilion theatre 12 Aug. 1885 as Moss Jewell in The World. _d._ from taking an overdose of morphia at 45 Great Russell st. London 13 Aug. 1885. _bur._ Jewish cemetery, Willesden 19 Aug. _Era 15 Aug. 1885 p._ 8, _22 Aug. p._ 8; _The Stage_, _i_ 25 (1874), _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. & Dram. News 22 Aug. 1885 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_.
JACKSON, HENRY (son of a brewer at Boston). _b._ Boston 15 April 1831; ed. at Sleaford and Boston gram. schools; became an invalid 1849; author of A dead man’s revenge, in Chambers’ Journal vol. 30; A first friendship, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 66 and 67, reissued in 1 vol. 1863; Gilbert Rugge, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 69–73, reissued in 3 vols. 1866, both novels were reprinted in America; A dangerous guest 1870; Hearth Ghosts 1871; Argus Fairburn 3 vols. 1874, all his books were anonymous except the last. _d._ Hampstead 24 May 1879.
JACKSON, HENRY JAMES. _b._ London 5 Sep. 1824; apprenticed to Otway and Warmington 1840–7; with sir J. Whitworth, Manchester 1849–51; engineer in service of North of Europe steam navigation co. 1851; engineer in W. S. Lindsay and co.’s steamship Harbinger in India 1855–9; engineer of John Penn between Dover and Calais 1859–65; superintendent of arsenal at Alexandria and engineer of Khedive’s steam yacht Mahroussa the fastest steamer afloat 1865–74; created a Bey as Jackson Bey; engineer of General steam navigation co.’s fleet of 64 steamers with a factory of 500 men 1874 to death; invented an improved propeller adopted by many steam boat companies; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1873 and M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1876. _d._ Deptford 2 Nov. 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.