Jane Jackson Roeckel (19 October 1833 – 26 August 1907)[1] was a British composer, inventor, pianist, and philanthropist.
Her father was the Old Water Colour Society and Bristol School painter Samuel Jackson;[8] her brother Samuel Phillips Jackson was also a painter; her sister Ada Villiers was a musician; and her uncle was the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
[9] Roeckel studied piano and harmony first with her father, then with Jacques Blumenthal, Charles Halle, Bernhard Molique, Ernst Pauer, and Clara Schumann.
[4] Roeckel was a philanthropist who organized many charitable concerts for struggling artists, helped establish the Bristol Scholarship at the Royal College of Music, and founded the Teachers Provident Association in 1885.
He paid Hall's living expenses in London while she attended the Royal Academy of Music, and later enabled her to study with Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík in Prague for 18 months.