Author: Jackson, Edward Dudley
Biography:
JACKSON, Edward Dudley (1803-79: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 11 July 1803 and baptised on 10 Oct. at Warminster (Independent), Wiltshire, the son of the Rev. Edward Dudley Jackson and his second wife, Mary Prescott, who had married in Shoreditch, London, in 1800. He went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, (matric. 1823, Scholar 1824, SCL 1827, BCL 1836) and the Middle Temple and was ordained in 1827. He was successively Curate of Cottenham (Cambs.), Stonehouse (Glouc.), Liverpool St. Andrew, Manchester St. Matthew’s and then St. Michael's. In Manchester he was also English Master at Manchester Grammar School 1837-44. The Diocese of Manchester appointed him the Rector of Heaton Norris, at a salary of £500 a year, from 1844 until his death. He married Mary Schofield on 19 June 1834 at Oldham, Lancashire. They had a son and two daughters. He died at Brighton on 27 Dec. 1879, leaving an estate of under £600. He was buried at Leckhampton, Cheltenham. His wife Mary and sister-in-law, Ann Schofield, who had lived with them since at least 1861, are also buried there. He published the devotional Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (1833), of which he was the editor, and two further volumes of sacred poetry: Lays of Ancient Palestine; and Other Poems (1850) and Nugae Lyricae (1870). (ancestry.co.uk 11 Aug. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 11 Aug 2021; CCEd 11 Sept. 2021; Croydon Observer 8 Jan. 1880; Evangelical Biography [1807] 3: 5-16; Stephen Shaw, The History of the Parish Church of St Thomas, Heaton Chapel [1979]; St. Peter’s, Leckhampton, Plot G72) AA
Other Names:
- the Rev. E. D. Jackson