Author: Lister, Edward Jackson
Biography:
LISTER, Edward Jackson (1766-82: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 16 Mar. 1766 at Saint Andrew, Holborn, the son of John Lister and his wife Ann Jarrett, who had married in the same church in 1763. He was the nephew of James Lister, the Oxford printer of Jackson’s Oxford Journal. (The Lister and Jackson families had earlier intermarried in Leeds.) He was a chorister at Magdalen College Oxford where his talents and manners attracted the attention of senior members of the college. William Julius Mickle (q.v.), the translator of Camoens’ Lusiad, was a walking companion, and the classical tutor and President of Magdalen, Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), was a great admirer. His translation of Bion, listed here, was highly regarded and he was thought to be a youth of great promise. He died, aged sixteen, and was buried on 6 June 1782 at St. Michael’s, Oxford, with a monumental tablet, the inscription written by Routh, erected seventy years after his death. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Dec. 2022; John Rouse Bloxam, A Register of the Presidents, Fellow, Demies . . . of Saint Mary Magdalen College . . . Vol. I. The Choristers [1853], 193-94) AA