Charles Jackson (antiquary)
Charles Jackson (1809–1882) was an English
Life
Born on 25 July 1809, he came from a family connected with
Jackson settled as a banker in Doncaster. He was treasurer of the borough from 1838 and trustee of a number of institutions, taking a large part in establishing the Doncaster Free Library. He suffered heavy losses in the bank failure of
Jackson died at Doncaster on 1 December 1882. By his marriage with a daughter of Hugh Parker of Woodthorpe, Yorkshire, he left four sons and four daughters.[1]
Works
Jackson's major work was Doncaster Charities, Past and Present (1881, Worksop), which had been written long before. For the Surtees Society he edited:[3]
- The Diary of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary (1870);
- the Autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton (1873); and
- Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies of the 17th and 18th Centuries (1877)
He was engaged at the time of his death in editing for the society a memoir of the Priestley family.[3]
Jackson also contributed to the Yorkshire Archæological Journal a paper on Sir Robert Swift and a memoir of the Rev. Thomas Broughton, as well as papers on local muniments (abstracts of deeds in the possession of James Montagu of Melton-on-the-Hill) and on the Stovin Manuscripts.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b c Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b c Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jackson, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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