[3] He studied at Latymer Upper School, then at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983.
[4] Jackson was ordained into the Church of England: made a deacon at Petertide 1994 (2 July), by Eric Kemp, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester Cathedral;[5] and ordained a priest the Petertide following (2 July 1995), by Lindsay Urwin, Bishop of Horsham, at St Mary's, Horsham.
[6] After a curacy in Lindfield he was Vicar of Rudgwick from 1998 until 2009 (also Rural Dean of Horsham from 2005) when he became the Diocese of Chichester's Advisor for Mission and Renewal.
[13] On 15 November 2023, Jackson was appointed Clerk of the Closet, head of the College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign.
[...] Without seeking to diminish the value of many committed same-sex relationships, for which there is much to give thanks, we find ourselves constrained by what we sincerely believe the Scriptures teach which cannot be set aside.