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.

He was educated at Charterhouse School, matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 9 April 1823, graduated B.A.

[2] In 1845 he became rector of Leigh Delamere with Sevington, Wiltshire, and in 1846 vicar of Norton Coleparle in the same county.

[1] 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.

He was librarian to the Marquess of Bath, and arranged and indexed the bulk of the manuscripts at Longleat House.