The Reverend Father William Henry Jackson (1889–1931) was an Anglican priest from England, who served as a missionary and ran the Kemmendine Blind School in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), for whose choir he also composed, conducted and recorded choral music.

[1] His parents were Mary Ann, née Bell, and Richard Stephens Jackson a solicitor and politician who later served as a member of the United Kingdom parliament.

[1] He learned to read Moon and then Braille,[7] and was subsequently educated as a border at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, from where he matriculated in 1907.

[15] William Charles Bertrand Purser, a friend of Jackson's oldest brother, had obtained a position as a missionary to St. Michael's Mission, in Rangoon, Burma (then a British colony) in 1904.

[22] He arrived on 8 November and shortly afterwards began to follow local customs, such as wearing the clothes of lower-class Burmese people, walking about barefoot and bare-headed, and eating food with his fingers.

[35] During trips home to England, he gave talks on BBC Radio about his missionary work, on 19 October 1923[36] and again on 5 August 1928, the latter being titled Why I live among the Burmese Blind.

[43] Although he rallied after his operation, he knew that his time was short, and arranged to return again to Burma, his condition deteriorating during the voyage.

[48] It was published in 1932 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,[48] with an introduction by Rollestone Fyffe, the former Bishop of Rangoon.

[49] A second, shorter, biography, Blind Eagle: Father Jackson of Burma, drawing heavily on the first, but with more on his ministry work in London, was written by Stanley Sowton in 1950.

[50] A bronze memorial plaque commemorating Jackson was erected inside Holy Trinity Cathedral in Yangon, and is extant.

[51] In 2011, software to read and write the Burmese Braille first devised by Jackson was developed by a computer technician at the school.