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Jackson, ---, fl. 1789
GB-2014-WSA-09932 · Person · fl. 1789

JACKSON, ---; b.; adm.; acted in Town Boy play 1789.

GB-2014-WSA-09933 · Person · 1866-1909

JACKSON, ARTHUR MASON TIPPETTS, eldest son of Mason Jackson, wood engraver, art editor The Illustrated London News, and Lucy Berriman, dau. of James Berriman Tippetts, solicitor; b. 30 Dec 1866; adm. 27 May 1880 (G), exhibitioner; Mure Scholar 1883; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1884; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1884, scholar 1884; 1st cl. Oriental Languages 1888; Boden Scholar 1888; BA 1888; MA 1893; adm. Middle Temple 17 Nov 1885, called to bar 19 Nov 1888; Indian Civil Service 1885; arrived in India 17 Dec 1888; Assistant Collector and Magistrate, Bombay; Assistant Collector and Inspector of Factories, Bombay 1892; Second Assistant, Jul 1895; Under Secretary, Revenue and Financial Departments 1897; First Assistant 1898; Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay 1898-1900; Junior Collector 1902; Senior Collector 1907; Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery; Registrar of Bombay and Commissioner of Income Tax May 1907; Political Agent, Surgana Dec 1907; Collector at Nasik; one of the best Oriental scholars of his day; m. Pensa Finney [presumably Pensa Douglass Finney, dau. of John Douglass Finney]; killed by a Chitpavan Brahmin in theatre at Nasik 21 Dec 1909. DNB (s. v. father). .

GB-2014-WSA-09934 · Person · 1943-2013

Jackson, Bryan Alan, son of Leslie Jackson, House of Commons steward, of Hampstead, and Florence Catherine, d. of Arthur Arundel Allen, butler, of Dover; b. 29 Oct. 1943; adm. Sept. 1956 (L); left July 1961; articled to solicitor 1962, managing clerk 1965-76; hotelier Ilfracombe, Devon 1976-82; solicitor’s managing clerk 1979-85; a property conveyancer Farnham, Surrey 1985-8; m. 14 Sept. 1968 Patricia Ann Coles, local govt. officer, d. of James Patrick Bruce Coles, engineer; d. 1 Mar. 2013.

Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819
GB-2014-WSA-00010 · Person · 1746-1819

JACKSON, CYRIL, eldest son of Cyril Jackson MD, York, and Judith, widow of William Rawson, Nidd Hall and Bradford, Yorks., and dau. of John Prescott, Halifax, Yorks., surgeon; bapt. 23 Jul 1746; adm. Manchester GS 1755; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1760; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1764, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jun 1764, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1764 – void 16 Jun 1779, Librarian 1778; BA 1768; MA 1771; BD 1777; DD 1781; Sub-Preceptor to the two eldest sons of George III Apr 1771-6; ordained priest 2 Feb 1777 (York); Rector of Carlton in Lindrick, Notts., 4 Aug 1778 – Oct 1779; Preacher at Lincoln’s Inn May 1779-83; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 5 Jun 1779 – Jul 1783, Dean 27 Jul 1783 – 1809; Prebendary of Southwell 1786-7; declined Bishopric of Oxford 1799 and Primacy of Ireland 1800; retired to Felpham, Sussex 1809; FRS 16 Jan 1772; Busby Trustee 8 May 1800; a distinguished scholar and mathematician, with a dignified presence, and a strong and charming personality, who devoted himself heart and soul to the welfare of his college; his gold-headed cane, which he used to carry, was carefully preserved at the School, and used by the actors in the Latin Plays; d. unm. 31 Aug 1819. DNB.

Jackson, Darcy, 1774-1794
GB-2014-WSA-09935 · Person · 1774-1794

JACKSON, DARCY, son of Thomas Jackson (qv); b. 8 May 1774; adm. 14 Jan 1783; left 1784; went to Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar 1784-92; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1792; d. 27 Mar 1794.

GB-2014-WSA-09936 · Person · 1805-1872

JACKSON, EDWARD ROWLAND JOHN, eldest son of Warren Hastings Rowland Jackson, Castleview, co. Cork, and Anne, dau. of Count Edward D’Alton, Grenanstown, co. Tipperary, Field-Marshal in Austrian Army; b. 27 Dec 1805; adm. 18 Jan 1819 (G); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Dec 1823, matr. Lent 1824; d. 6 Nov 1872.

Jackson, Edward, 1717-?
GB-2014-WSA-09937 · Person · 1717-?

JACKSON, EDWARD, brother of William Jackson (Min. Can. 1730, qv); bapt. 23 Jan 1716/7; BB 1726-32; in school list 1727/8.

GB-2014-WSA-09938 · Person · 1902-1978

Jackson, Fabian Menteath Elliot, brother of Paul Trevor Elliot Jackson (q.v.); b. Nov. 22, 1902; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (H); exhibitioner 1916; non-resident K.S. Sept. 1917; left July 1920; Lond. Univ.; B.A. 1925; ord. deacon 1926, priest 1927 (London); Curate of St. Augustine, Kilburn, 1926-38; Minister of Wood End, Northolt, Middx, 1938-43; Vicar of All Saints, Clifton, 1943-6; consecrated Bishop of Trinidad June 24, 1946; resigned for ill-health Nov. 1949; Rector of Batcombe with Upton Noble, Somerset, 1950; Asst. Bishop of Bath and Wells; Prebendary of Wells 1954; d. 16 July 1978.

GB-2014-WSA-09939 · Person · 1869-1921

JACKSON, GEORGE ERNEST, third son of William Jackson, The Hall, Knottingley, Yorks., and Maria Jane, dau. of John Carter, The Grange, Knottingley, Yorks .; b. 27 Mar 1869; adm. 26 Jan 1880 (G); left May 1884; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Oct 1886, matr. Mich. 1886; naturalised as a US citizen; called to American bar; m.; d. in London 14 Sep 1921.

Jackson, George, 1785-1861
GB-2014-WSA-09940 · Person · 1785-1861

JACKSON, SIR GEORGE, youngest son of Thomas Jackson (qv); b. Oct 1785; adm.; left Oct 1801 (Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson, 1872, i, 1 and 37); entered Diplomatic Service; attaché, Paris 1801; chargé d’affaires, Berlin 1806-7; Secretary of Legation, Madrid 1808-9; accomanied Sir Charles Stewart on mission to Germany 1813; chargé d’affaires, Berlin 1814-5; Secretary of Embassy, St. Petersburg 1816; sent on secret mission to Madrid 1822; Commissioner at Washington, for settlement of American claims under Treaty of Ghent, 1823-7; first Commissary Judge of Mixed Commission Court at Sierra Leone 1828; Chief Commissioner for Abolition of African Slave Trade at Rio de Janeiro 1832-41, Surinam 1841-5, S. Paolo de Loando 1845-59; knighted 12 Sep 1832; KCH 1832; his widow published selections from his Diaries and Letters, 1872, and a continuation under the title The Bath Archives, 1873; m. 1st, 30 Jun 1812 Cordelia, dau. of Christopher Savile MP, Westminster; m. 2nd, 1856 Catherine Hannah Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Elliott, Wakefield, Yorks.; d. at Boulogne, France 2 May 1861. DNB.