Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 2nd Baronet, DL (23 July 1831 – 8 March 1881) was a British

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politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1867 to 1868, and from 1874 to 1881, when he became a High Court judge.

Early life

Jackson was the eldest son of the Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876) of

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, a businessman who made his first fortune from palm oil imports, a second fortune in property development, before becoming an industrialist and railway entrepreneur and later a Liberal MP. His mother was Elizabeth ''née'' Hughes, from

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. He was educated at Harrow and matriculated in 1850 at

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, where he graduated in 1853 with a

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in Classics. He was called to the bar in 1855 at

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, and

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in 1873. His address was listed in 1881 as Llantilio Court,

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, Monmouthshire. The house was located at Llantilio Crossenny, about six miles east of Abergavenny. Jackson had bought it in 1873 from Henry Morgan-Clifford, the former MP for Hereford, and after his death it remained the home of his son Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 3rd Baronet. The house was demolished in 1922, leaving only the foundations and undercroft, although the landscaped park remains. Llantilio Court and the baronetcy were inherited by his son, the 3rd Baronet, who was appointed in 1916 to a tribunal to consider appeals in Monmouthshire against

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under the

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. As Chairman of the Monmouthshire Appeals Tribunal, the third baronet was made a

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(CBE) in June 1918, for "services in connection with the war".

Political career

Jackson first stood for Parliament at the 1865 general election, when he was unsuccessful in his native borough of Birkenhead. After the death in 1867 of Morgan Treherne, one of the two MPs for Coventry, Jackson won the resulting by-election on 23 July 1867.Craig, op. cit., p. 100 The result was declared void after an election petition, but fellow Liberal Samuel Carter was elected in his place. When he and Jackson stood again at the 1868 general election, both seats were won by

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s. Jackson was returned to the

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at the 1874 general election, and was re-elected in

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. He was commissioned in June 1876 as a Deputy Lieutenant of

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, a position also held from May 1885 by his son, Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 3rd Baronet. In 1879, Jackson was appointed to a

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to enquire into the condition of

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s in England and Wales and their clergy. He left Parliament in 1881 when he was appointed as a judge of the Queen's Bench division of the High Court, but died shortly afterwards, aged 49.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Henry, 2nd Baronet 1831 births 1881 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Members of Lincoln's Inn 19th-century English judges Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Deputy lieutenants of Monmouthshire Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford People from Abergavenny Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Coventry People educated at Harrow School