Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Jackson, William (10)
Jackson, William, s. Cyrill, of York (city), 'doctoris.' Christ Church, matric. 1 June, 1768, aged 17; B.A. 1772, M.A. 1775, tutor, rhetoric reader and censor, B.D. 1783, D.D. 1799, a canon 1799-1815, regius professor of Greek 1783-1811, preb. of Southwell 1780, of York 1783, and of Wells 1792, rector of Beeford, a curator of the Clarendon Press, preacher of Lincoln's Inn 1783-1811, bishop of Oxford and clerk of the closet 1812-15, died 2 Dec., 1815. See Manchester School Reg., i., & Alumni West.