Hon. Robert Jackson

1736 - 1817


Biography

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.


Sources

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].


Further Information

Spouse
Susan Campbell
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, Henry Stanley Jackson b. 8 Jul 1812
Occupation
Plantation owner

Associated Estates (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1810 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1811 [EA] - → Trustee
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Relationships (3)

Father → Son
Husband → Wife
Father → Daughter