John Edward Jackson (antiquarian)
John Edward Jackson (12 November 1805 – 6 March 1891) was an English clergyman of the Church of England, antiquary, and archivist. Life. Born on 12 November 1805, Jackson was second son of James Jackson, a banker, of Doncaster, by Henrietta Priscilla, second daughter of Freeman Bower; Charles Jackson was a younger brother. He was educated at Charterhouse School, matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 9 April 1823, graduated B.A. with second-class classical honours in 1827, and proceeded to M.A. in 1830. In 1834 he was ordained curate of Farleigh Hungerford. In 1845 he became rector  of Leigh Delamere with Sevington, Wiltshire, and in 1846 vicar of Norton Coleparle in the same county. He was also a rural dean and in 1855 became an honorary canon of Bristol Cathedral. He was greatly interested in geology, and his collection of fossils was left to the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, of which he was a founder member, and became secretary and then editor of its magazine. But he later became more interested in history and topography, which were the subject of most of his published works. The most important of these was "The Topographical Collections of  John Aubrey" (1862), which greatly extended the work on which it was based. Jackson was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was librarian to the Marquess of Bath, and arranged and indexed the bulk of the manuscripts at Longleat House. He published a number of these manuscripts. "Longleat Papers A.D. 1553-1588" appeared in 1872, and two of his papers have appendices with relevant documents from the Longleat archives: "Wulfhall and the Seymours" (1874); and "Amye Robsart" (1877). Personal life. In 1851, he was living alone with a housekeeper and a housemaid. In 1861, he was  at the Parsonage, Leigh Delamere, with two nephews both aged fifteen, a housekeeper, and a housemaid. He died in March 1891, leaving a personal estate valued at £34,505, . His executors were two of his nephews, John Houlton Jackson, a senior clerk in the War Office, and Morton Strode Jackson, a principal clerk in the Inland Revenue Office. Works. Jackson's published works were: As editor: "Kingston House", "Leland's Journey Through Wiltshire"; "History of Longleat", "History of the Priory of Monkton Farley", "On the Hungerford Chapels", "Maud Heath's Causey", "Murder of Henry Long", "Wiltshire Sheriffs" and "The History  of Kington St. Michael" were published together in 1854 as "Wiltshire Essays". Notes. Attribution