and Oxford. In 1771 he was chosen to be sub-preceptor to the two eldest sons of George III., but in 1776 he was dismissed, probably through some household intrigues. He then took orders, and was appointed in 1779 to the preachership at Lincoln’s Inn and to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1783 he was elected dean of Christ Church. His devotion to the college led him to decline the bishopric of Oxford in 1799 and the primacy of Ireland in 1800. He took a leading part in framing the statute which, in 1802, launched the system of public examinations at Oxford, but otherwise he was not prominent in university affairs. On his resignation in 1809 he settled at Felpham, in Sussex, where he remained till his death.
JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE (1860– ), British Arctic
explorer, was educated at Denstone College and Edinburgh
University. His first voyage in Arctic waters was on a whaling-cruise
in 1886–1887, and in 1893 he made a sledge-journey of
3000 miles across the frozen tundra of Siberia lying between the
Ob and the Pechora. His narrative of this journey was published
under the title of The Great Frozen Land (1895). On his return,
he was given the command of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic
expedition (1894–1897), which had for its objective the general
exploration of Franz Josef Land. In recognition of his services
he received a knighthood of the first class of the Danish Royal
Order of St Olaf in 1898, and was awarded the gold medal of
the Paris Geographical Society in 1899. His account of the
expedition was published under the title of A Thousand Days in
the Arctic (1899). He served in South Africa during the Boer
War, and obtained the rank of captain. His travels also include
a journey across the Australian deserts.
JACKSON, HELEN MARIA (1831–1885), American poet and
novelist, who wrote under the initials of “H. H.” (Helen Hunt),
was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on the 18th of October
1831, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske (1798–1847), who
was a professor in Amherst College. In October 1852 she
married Lieutenant Edward Bissell Hunt (1822–1863), of the
U.S. corps of engineers. In 1870 she published a little volume
of meditative Verses, which was praised by Emerson in the
preface to his Parnassus (1874). In 1875 she married William
S. Jackson, a banker, of Colorado Springs. She became a prolific
writer of prose and verse, including juvenile tales, books of
travel, household hints and novels, of which the best is Ramona
(1884), a defence of the Indian character. In 1883, as a special
commissioner with Abbot Kinney (b. 1850), she investigated the
condition and needs of the Mission Indians in California. A
Century of Dishonor (1881) was an arraignment of the treatment
of the Indians by the United States. She died on the 12th of
August 1885 in San Francisco.
In addition to her publications referred to above, Mercy Philbrick’s Choice (1876), Hetty’s Strange History (1877), Zeph (1886), and Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) may be mentioned.
JACKSON, MASON (c. 1820–1903), British engraver, was
born at Berwick-on-Tweed about 1820, and was trained as a
wood engraver by his brother, John Jackson, the author of a
history of this art. In the middle of the 19th century he made a
considerable reputation by his engravings for the Art Union
of London, and for Knight’s Shakespeare and other standard
books; and in 1860 he was appointed art editor of the Illustrated
London News, a post which he held for thirty years. He wrote
a history of the rise and progress of illustrated journalism. He
died in December 1903.
JACKSON, THOMAS (1579–1640), president of Corpus Christi
College, Oxford, and dean of Peterborough, was born at Witton-le-Wear,
Durham, and educated at Oxford. He became a
probationer fellow of Corpus in 1606, and was soon afterwards
elected vice-president. In 1623 he was presented to the living
of St Nicholas, Newcastle, and about 1625 to the living of
Winston, Durham. Five years later he was appointed president
of Corpus, and in 1632 the king presented him to the living of
Witney, Oxfordshire. He was made a prebendary of Winchester
in 1635, and was dean of Peterborough in 1635–1639. Although
originally a Calvinist, he became in later life an Arminian.
His chief work was a series of commentaries on the Apostles’ Creed, the first complete edition being entitled The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. (London, 1673). The commentaries were, however, originally published in 1613–1657, as twelve books with different titles, the first being The Eternal Truth of Scriptures (London, 1613).
JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824–1863), known as
“Stonewall Jackson,” American general, was born at Clarksburg,
Virginia (now West Virginia), on the 21st of January 1824,
and was descended from an Ulster family. At an early age he
was left a penniless orphan, and his education was acquired in a
small country school until he procured, mainly by his own
energy, a nomination to the Military Academy. Lack of social
graces and the deficiencies of his early education impeded him at
first, but “in the end ‘Old Jack,’ as he was always called, with
his desperate earnestness, his unflinching straightforwardness,
and his high sense of honour, came to be regarded with something
like affection.” Such qualities he displayed not less amongst
the light-hearted cadets than afterwards at the head of troops
in battle. After graduating he took part, as second lieutenant
in the 1st U.S. Artillery, in the Mexican War. At Vera Cruz he
won the rank of first lieutenant, and for gallant conduct at
Contreras and Chapultepec respectively he was brevetted captain
and major, a rank which he attained with less than one year’s
service. During his stay in the city of Mexico his thoughts were
seriously directed towards religion, and, eventually entering the
Presbyterian communion, he ruled every subsequent action of
his life by his faith. In 1851 he applied for and obtained a
professorship at the Virginia military institute, Lexington;
and here, except for a short visit to Europe, he remained for
ten years, teaching natural science, the theory of gunnery and
battalion drill. Though he was not a good teacher, his influence
both on his pupils and on those few intimate friends for whom
alone he relaxed the gravity of his manner was profound, and,
little as he was known to the white inhabitants of Lexington, he
was revered by the slaves, to whom he showed uniform kindness,
and for whose moral instruction he worked unceasingly. As to
the great question at issue in 1861, Major Jackson’s ruling
motive was devotion to his state, and when Virginia seceded, on
the 17th of April, and the Lexington cadets were ordered to
Richmond, Jackson went thither in command of the corps.
His intimate friend, Governor Letcher, appreciating his gifts,
sent him as a colonel of infantry to Harper’s Ferry, where the
first collision with the Union forces was hourly expected. In
June he received the command of a brigade, and in July promotion
to the rank of brigadier-general. He had well employed
the short time at his disposal for training his men, and on the
first field of Bull Run they won for themselves and their
brigadier, by their rigid steadiness at the critical moment of the
battle, the historic name of “Stonewall.”
After the battle of Bull Run Jackson spent some time in the further training of his brigade which, to his infinite regret, he was compelled to leave behind him when, in October, he was assigned as a major-general to command in the Shenandoah Valley. His army had to be formed out of local troops, and few modern weapons were available, but the Valley regiments retained the impress of Jackson’s training till the days of Cedar Creek. Discipline was not acquired at once, however, and the first ventures of the force were not very successful. At Kernstown, indeed, Jackson was tactically defeated by the Federals under Shields (March 23, 1862). But the Stonewall brigade had been sent to its old leader in November, and by the time that the famous Valley Campaign (see Shenandoah Valley Campaigns) began, the forces under Jackson’s command had acquired cohesion and power of manœuvre. On the 8th of May 1862 was fought the combat of McDowell, won by Jackson against the leading troops of Frémont’s command from West Virginia. Three weeks later the forces under Banks were being driven over the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry, and Jackson was master of the Valley. Every other plan of campaign in Virginia was at once subordinated to the scheme of “trapping Jackson.” But the Confederates, marching swiftly up the Valley, slipped between the converging columns of Frémont from the west and
