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 1847. _d._ 21 Hornton st. Kensington 3 June 1852. _O’Byrne’s 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 1886. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait xiii_.