Charles Jackson (1809–1882) was an English

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and

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Life

Born on 25 July 1809, he came from a family connected with

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

, where both his grandfather and his father were mayors. He was the third son of the large family of James Jackson, banker, by Henrietta Priscilla, second daughter of Freeman Bower of

Bawtry Bawtry is a market town and civil parish in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It lies between Doncaster, Gainsborough and Retford, on the border with Nottinghamshire and close to Lincolnshire. The town is historically part of ...

; John Edward Jackson was an elder brother. In 1829, he was admitted to

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and was

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there in 1834. Jackson settled as a banker in Doncaster. He was treasurer of the borough from 1838 and trustee of a number of institutions, taking a large part in establishing the Doncaster Free Library. He suffered heavy losses in the bank failure of Overend, Gurney, & Co. Jackson died at Doncaster on 1 December 1882. By his marriage with a daughter of Hugh Parker of Woodthorpe, Yorkshire, he left four sons and four daughters.

Works

Jackson's major work was ''Doncaster Charities, Past and Present'' (1881, Worksop), which had been written long before. For the

Surtees Society The Surtees Society is a text publication society and registered charity (No. 1003812) based in Durham in northern England. The society was established on 27 May 1834 by James Raine, following the death (on 11 February) of the renowned County D ...

he edited: * The ''Diary of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary'' (1870); * the ''Autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton'' (1873); and * ''Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies of the 17th and 18th Centuries'' (1877) He was engaged at the time of his death in editing for the society a memoir of the Priestley family. Jackson also contributed to the ''Yorkshire Archæological Journal'' a paper on Sir Robert Swift and a memoir of the Rev. Thomas Broughton, as well as papers on local muniments (abstracts of deeds in the possession of James Montagu of Melton-on-the-Hill) and on the Stovin Manuscripts.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Charles 1809 births 1882 deaths English bankers English barristers English antiquarians 19th-century English lawyers 19th-century English businesspeople