Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Downes Jackson KCB (1777 – 9 June 1845), born at Petersfield in the English county of Hampshire, was an officer in the British Army and subsequently colonial Administrator.
[1] He fought at the Siege of Cádiz and the Battle of Barrosa during the Peninsular War and was knighted on 12 April 1815.
In September 1841, Lord Sydenham, the Governor General of the Province of Canada, died in office.
He exercised the powers of the Governor General until the arrival of Sydenham's successor, Sir Charles Bagot in early 1842.
[2][3] Jackson continued as Commander-in-Chief until 1845 when, missing his family in England, he asked to be recalled.