Sir John Jackson (4 February 1851 – 14 December 1919) was a Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 1910–18, retiring from politics when his constituency was merged into another.
Born at York, he worked in Newcastle before studying engineering at Edinburgh University under Peter Guthrie Tait. On Tait's death in 1901 Jackson endowed a research fund named after him.
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Jackson specialised in contracting the design and build of major marine works, and his efficiency at this earned him his knighthood. Notable achievements in Great Britain were:
Overseas he created:
Proposals to build a bridge over the English Channel between Calais and Dover and a second trans-Siberian railway were cut short by the start of World War I.
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| Preceded by John Williams Benn Hudson Kearley |
Member of Parliament for Devonport January 1910 – 1918 With: Clement Kinloch-Cooke |
Succeeded by Clement Kinloch-Cooke |