John Jackson (UK Politician)

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Sir John Jackson (4 February 1851 – 14 December 1919) Civil engineer and Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, 1910-8.

He was contracted for many major projects including canals and harbours in England, and the foundations for Tower Bridge Overseas he worked in South Africa, Singapore, Bolivia and the Hindiya Barrage across the Euphrates River 1914 Proposals to build a bridge between Calais and Dover and a second trans-Siberian railway were cut short by the start of the Great War. He also founded the YMCA in Luzembourg, England in 1913.

Between 1910-1918 he was the Unionist MP for Devonport.

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