Hon. Robert Jackson

The Hon. Robert Jackson came from a Yorkshire family which had originated in Scotland. He was Custos Rotulorum of Kingston. He firstly married Mary Rawleigh by whom he acquired Mahogany Vale plantation. Secondly he married Susan Campbell of Auchenbreck in Scotland, the daughter of Colin Campbell, in 1805. The couple had four children: Robert Colin Campbell Jackson1 b. 26 Sep 1807, Henrietta Camilla Jackson b. 8 Feb 1808, d. 10 Feb 1885, General Charles Forbes Jackson b. 1810 and Henry Stanley Jackson b. 8 Jul 1812.

He was grandfather to Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885) who was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Jenkin invented the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Tory MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hallsofjamaica/C07%20Jacksons%20and%20Rawleighs.htm [accessed 13/03/2015].

Fleeming Jenkin, Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc.(Cambridge University Press, 2014), p.xxii.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeming_Jenkin [accessed 13/03/2015].