Robert Hugh Jackson OBE MC (9 May 1918 – 5 October 2013) was a British paediatrician most notable for his campaign to introduce childproof packaging to medicine.

He trained in the A&E department at Radcliffe Infirmary and also in Wingfield Orthopaedic Hospital where he met his future wife Shirley who was doing research in traumatic nerve damage.

[1] After his clinical training, he became a Medical Officer for an Infantry Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment in Italy.

He was awarded the Military Cross for heroism in northern Italy in treating more than a dozen soldiers injured when a house was shelled and collapsed.

[1] On his return to civilian life after the war, he began work under Sir James Spence, a pioneer in social paediatrics.