Jackson Baronets
There have been eight Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Jackson, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and six in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Four of the creations are extant as of 2011.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Hickleton in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 31 December 1660 for John Jackson. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in c. 1730.
The Jackson, later Duckett Baronetcy, of Hartham House in the County of Wiltshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 21 June 1791. For more information on this creation, see Duckett Baronets.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Fort Hill in the County of Armagh, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 21 April 1813 for George Jackson. The title became extinct on his death in 1851.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Arlsey in the County of Bedford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 May 1851 for John Jackson. He was a Director of the Honourable East India Company and also represented Dover in the House of Commons. The seventh Baronet never successfully proved his succession to the baronetcy and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. The eighth Baronet has also not successfully proven his succession and is not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant. For more information, follow this link.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of The Manor House in Birkenhead, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 November 1869 for William Jackson, Liberal Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyne and Derbyshire North. The second Baronet briefly represented Coventry in Parliament. The third Baronet served as Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. In 1886 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Mather. This surname was also used by the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Baronets.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Stansted House in Stansted in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 August 1902 for Sir Thomas Jackson. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. The second Baronet was a Brigadier-General in the Army and fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War.
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Eagle House in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 February 1913 for the architect Thomas Graham Jackson. The third Baronet is a well-known composer and organist.[1] [2] [3]
The Jackson Baronetcy, of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 July 1935 for Henry Jackson, Conservative Member of Parliament for Wandsworth Central. The title became extinct on his death in 1937.
Jackson Baronets, of Hickleton (1660)
- Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (c. 1631 c 1670
- Sir John Jackson, 2nd Baronet (1653-1680)
- Sir Bradwardine Jackson, 3rd Baronet (c. 1670-c. 1730)
Jackson, later Duckett Baronets, of Hartham House (1791)
Jackson Baronets, of Fort Hill (1813)
- Sir George Jackson, 1st Baronet (1776-1851)
Jackson Baronets, of Arlsey (1815)
- Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (1763-1820)
- Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, 2nd Baronet (1798-1843)
- Sir Mountstuart Goodricke Jackson, 3rd Baronet (1836-1857)
- Sir Keith George Jackson, 4th Baronet (1842-1916)
- Sir Robert Montresor Jackson, 5th Baronet (1876-1940)
- Sir John Montresor Jackson, 6th Baronet (1914-1980)
- Sir Robert Jackson, 7th Baronet (1910-2000)
- Sir Keith Arnold Jackson, 8th Baronet (b. 1921)
Jackson Baronets, of The Manor House (1869)
- Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805-1876)
- Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 2nd Baronet (1831-1881)
- Sir Henry Mather Mather-Jackson, 3rd Baronet (1855-1942)
- Sir Edward Arthur Mather-Jackson, 4th Baronet (1899-1956), succeeded by a cousin
- Sir George Christopher Mather Mather-Jackson, 5th Baronet (1896-1976), succeeded by his only surviving brother
- Sir Anthony Henry Mather Mather-Jackson, 6th Baronet (1899-1983). He married Evelyn Stephenson, daughter of Sir Henry Kenyon Stephenson, 1st Baronet, and died leaving three daughters, and the title thus passed to his second cousin, the descendant of the second son of the first baronet. [4] His two elder daughters were:
- Angela Mary Mather-Jackson (b. 1925) who married 1947 Francis (Frank) Ambrose More O'Ferrall (1904-1976); their three daughters[5] include
- Susan Angela More O'Ferrall (b. 1948) married 1977 Hon. Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, now 3rd Baron Beaverbrook who apparently prefers to be called Sir Maxwell Aitken. They have two sons and two daughters.
- Theresa Mary Magdalene More O'Ferrall (b. 1950) married 14 February 1975 Hon. Wentworth Peter Ismay Beaumont (b. 1948), now 4th Viscount Allendale as of 2002. They have one son and three daughters.
- Elizabeth Georgiana Mather-Jackson, now Dowager Viscountess Cowdray (b. 1926); she married Viscount Cowdray on 4 March 1953 as his 2nd wife, and had one son and two daughters. The elder daughter
- Hon. Lucy Pearson, now Lucy Fraser (b. 11 April 1954) married 1stly 1974 (div) Luis Basualdo, polo player, and had issue, one son and one daughter. She married 2ndly 1988 (sep 2008) Charles Torquil de Montalt Fraser (b. 1960), polo player, and had further issue, four daughters.
- Sir William Mather-Jackson, 7th Baronet (1902-1985)
- Sir (William) Thomas Jackson, 8th Baronet (1927-2004)
- Sir (William) Roland Cedric Jackson, 9th Baronet (b. 1954)
Jackson Baronets, of Stansted House (1902)
- Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet (1841-1915)
- Sir Thomas Dare Jackson, 2nd Baronet (1876-1954)
- Sir George Julius Jackson, 3rd Baronet (1883-1956)
- Sir (Walter David) Russell Jackson, 4th Baronet (1890-1956)
- Sir Michael Roland Jackson, 5th Baronet (b. 1919)
Jackson Baronets, of Eagle House (1913)
Jackson Baronets, of Wandsworth (1935)
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets