John Jackson (engineer)
Sir John Jackson (4 February 1851 – 14 December 1919) was an eminent English engineer who in later life served as Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 1910 to 1918, retiring from politics when his constituency was merged into another. He was proprietor of the major British engineering firm of John Jackson Ltd and the shipping company Westminster Shipping Co Ltd. Life Born at 15 Coney Street in York, the youngest son of Elizabeth daughter of David Ruddock of Horbury, and her husband Edward Jackson (1789-1859), a goldsmith. His father died when he was eight years old, leaving him to be raised by his mother.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'': Sir John Jackson He was educated at Holgate Seminary. He was apprenticed to William Boyd, engineer in Newcastle from 1866 to 1868 before studying engineering at the University of Edinburgh under Peter Guthrie Tait. On Tait's death in 1901, Jackson endowed a research fund named after him. On graduation from Edinburgh ...
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