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an English divine, brother of Cyril Jackson, born in 1750, was educated' at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He obtained the degree of D.D. in 1799, and became, after having been preacher at Lincoln's Inn, canon of Christ Church, regius professor of Greek in 1811, and bishop of Oxford. He died in November, 1815. He published some of his sermons (1784-1804). See Rich, Bibliotheca Americana Nova, 1, 317.