Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), was an English Wesleyan minister and writer who acted as chair of divinity of the Richmond Theological College and president of the Methodist Conference during the mid-nineteenth century.

For twenty years he laboured in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in the same capacity, occupying some of the most important circuits, such as Preston and Wakefield, Manchester, Lincoln, Leeds, and London.

From 1824 to 1842 he was editor of the Wesleyan Methodist magazines, and, despite his lack of a liberal education in youth, he performed his duties with marked success.

A hundred years had just passed since the formation of the first Methodist Society by the Wesley brothers, and Jackson prepared a centenary volume describing the origin and growth of methodism, and the benefits springing from it (1839).

In the centenary celebrations he played a leading part, and preached before the conference in Brunswick Chapel, Liverpool, the official sermon, which occupied nearly three hours in delivery.

[1][2] Jackson was re-elected president in 1849, when the Methodist community was agitated by the so-called reform movement and the expulsion of James Everett, Samuel Dunn, and Griffiths.

After leaving Richmond he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Marzials, first in Bloomsbury, and afterwards in Shepherd's Bush, where he died on 10 March 1873.