[2][3][4] Born in Burnley, he was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie Hiley.
[9] That same year, the University of Dundee conferred upon him another honorary degree[10] and he was elected a fellow by the Royal College of Art.
[1]: 381 Afterwards he became again employed at Vickers working as research engineer for the next two years and then obtained a professorship in electrotechnics at his former university.
[1]: 384 Jackson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953[1][13] and joined again Vickers as director of its research and education department, a post he held until 1961.
[6] He gave the 1967 presidential address (Science, Technology and Society) to the British Association meeting in Leeds.
[6] Two years later in 1955 Jackson joined the University Grants Committee, whose membership he held for a decade.
[6] Jackson was nominated a chairman of the Ministry's Committee on Supply and Training of Technical Teachers in 1956.
Jackson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953, his nomination reads.Jackson's work has been devoted, mainly, to correlating the electrical behaviour of dielectric materials with their chemical composition and physical structure through studies of the mechanisms of energy-loss and breakdown under alternating electric stress, and to developing new techniques of measurement for investigation of these properties at cm.
This work is directly related to his studies of the behaviour of transmission lines and wave-guides, and of their applications in radar and communication systems: here his investigations on polythene and barium titanate ceramics are of outstanding importance.