John Jackson (engineer)

Sir John Jackson CVO FRSE (4 February 1851 – 14 December 1919) was an English engineer who in later life served as Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 1910 to 1918, retiring from politics when his constituency was merged into another.

On graduation from Edinburgh he returned to Newcastle to work with his brother, William Edwin Jackson, a building contractor.

[2] His greatest engineering work in Britain from 1896 to 1907 was the extension of the Keyham Yard at Devonport Royal Dockyard at a cost of nearly £4 million.

In later life he moved to 48 Belgrave Square in London and also bought a major country estate at Henley Park at Henley-on-Thames.

He died of a heart attack whilst visiting his mistress, Mrs Mabel Lydia Henderson at Hascombe Grange in Hambledon on 14 December 1919.