[2] He was the son of William Jackson of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, and Mary Judith Walrond.
[6] After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Trinidad, he held incumbencies in St Vincent and Barbados.
He retained his See only in the legal sense, with the work carried out by coadjutor bishops John Mitchinson (until 1882)[7] and Charles Branch.
Jackson died on 25 November 1895, aged 84, at home in Ealing, West London.
[9][10] Of their sons, William became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Henry became Governor of the Leeward Islands, then Fiji, then Trinidad and Tobago.