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Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924) was one of the most distinguished British
architect
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s of his generation. He is best remembered for his work at
Oxford
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, including the
Oxford Military College
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at Cowley, the university's
Examination Schools
The Examination Schools of the University of Oxford are located at 75–81 High Street, Oxford, England. The building was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson (1835–1924), who also designed several other University buildings, such as much of Brasen ...
, most of
Hertford College
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(including the
Bridge of Sighs
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over
New College Lane
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), much of
Brasenose College
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, ranges at
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and
Somerville College
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, the
City of Oxford High School for Boys
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, and the
Acland Nursing Home.
Life and career
Much of his career was devoted to the architecture of education, and he worked extensively for various schools, notably
Giggleswick
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and his own alma mater
Brighton College
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. Jackson designed the former town hall in
Tipperary Town
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, Ireland. He also worked on many parish churches and the college chapel at the
University of Wales, Lampeter
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. He is also famous for designing the chapel (amongst other things) at
Radley College
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.
He was educated at
Brighton College
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and then
Wadham College, Oxford
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
, of which he wrote a history, before being articled as a pupil to
Sir George Gilbert Scott
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.
Jackson was a prolific author of carefully researched works in architectural history, often illustrated with sketches made during his extensive travels. Jackson's travels in
Dalmatia, in which he was accompanied by his intrepid wife, would result in ''Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado'' (3 volumes), published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1887. It remains today a fundamental source of knowledge of the geography, art, architecture and social life of Dalmatia in those years.
He and
Norman Shaw
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edited ''Architecture, A Profession or an Art'' published in 1892, to which
William H. White replied by publishing ''The Architect and his artists, an essay to assist the public in considering the question is architecture a profession or an art''.
This had been part of the course of events which resulted in the passing of the
Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938
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* Architects (Registration) Act 1931;
* Architects (Registration) Act 1934; and
* Architects Registration Act 1938 ...
which established the statutory
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and
monopolistic restrictions on the use of the
vernacular
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word "
architect
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", imposed with threat of
penalty
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on
prosecution
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for infringement.
In 1889, Jackson was elected as a member of the
Art Workers' Guild
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, and went to be elected Master of the Guild in 1896.
In 1892, he was elected as an associate member of the
Royal Academy before becoming an elected full member of the Academy in 1896, and holding roles of senior Royal Academician and treasurer.
[
In 1919, Jackson wrote a collection of supernatural stories, ''Six Ghost Stories''. These stories were written under the influence of ]M. R. James
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, and Jackson expressed admiration for James' work in the book's introduction.
A stone memorial tablet to Sir Thomas was erected in the chapel of Brighton College, part of which he had built as a First World War
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memorial in 1922–23. For that school's chapel he had also designed many memorials during the 1880s and 1890s. The other concentrated group of mural tablets by Jackson is to be found in the antechapel of Wadham College in Oxford.
Jackson's pupils and assistants included Evelyn Hellicar.
Jackson was created a baronet
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, of Eagle House in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey, on 10 February 1913.
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External links
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Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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1835 births
1924 deaths
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Royal Academicians
Registration of architects in the United Kingdom
People educated at Brighton College
English ecclesiastical architects
Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
Architects from Oxford
Ghost story writers
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Masters of the Art Worker's Guild