Miles Jackson was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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in 1654 and 1656.
Jackson was an alderman of
Bristol
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and served as Sheriff of Bristol in 1631 and as Mayor in 1649.
[W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester'']
/ref> In April 1654, Jackson was elected Member of Parliament
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for Bristol
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in the First Protectorate Parliament
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.[ Jackson was returned for Bristol again in 1656 as replacement for John Dodderidge who chose to sit instead for Devon. He was military commissioner for Bristol again in 1659.][
Jackson left a garden for charitable uses to pay for bread for the poor.][
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English MPs 1654–1655
English MPs 1656–1658
Mayors of Bristol
High Sheriffs of Bristol