Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 2nd Baronet, KC, DL (23 July 1831 – 8 March 1881)[1] was a British Liberal Party[2] politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry from 1867 to 1868, and from 1874 to 1881, when he became a High Court judge.
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Jackson was the eldest son of the Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876) of Birkenhead,[3] 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 Liverpool.[3]
He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1853 with a B.A. in Classics.[3] He was called to the bar in 1855 at Lincoln's Inn,[3] and took silk in 1873.[4]
His address was listed in 1881 as Llantilio Court, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.[3] 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,[5] and after his death it remained the home of his son Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 3rd Baronet. The house was demolished in 1930, leaving only the foundations and undercroft,[6][7] although the landscaped park remains.[8]
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 conscription under the Military Service Act 1916.[9] As Chairman of the Monmouthshire Appeals Tribunal,[10] the third baronet was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 1918, for "services in connection with the war".[10]
Jackson first stood for Parliament at the 1865 general election, when he was unsuccessful in his native borough of Birkenhead.[2] 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.[11] However, the result was declared void after an election petition,[11][12] and when Jackson stood again at the 1868 general election, both seats were won by Conservatives.[11] He was returned to the House of Commons at the 1874 general election,[13] and was re-elected in 1880.[14]
He was commissioned in June 1876 as a Deputy Lieutenant[3] of Monmouthshire,[15] a position also held from May 1885 by his son, Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 3rd Baronet.[16] In 1879, Jackson was appointed to a Royal Commission to enquire into the condition of Cathedrals in England and Wales and their clergy.[17] He left Parliament in 1881 when he was appointed as a judge of the Queen's Bench division[11] of the High Court,[18] but died short afterwards, aged 49.[1]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Henry Eaton Alexander Staveley Hill |
Member of Parliament for Coventry 1874–1881 With: Henry Eaton 1874–1880 William Wills 1880–1881 |
Succeeded by William Wills Henry Eaton |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by William Jackson |
Baronet (of Birkenhead) 1876–1881 |
Succeeded by Henry Mather-Jackson |