to the Éclair, Capt. Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt.
J.
JACK. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 18; h-p., 31.)
Leigh Spark Jack entered the Navy, 7 May, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Powerful 74, Capt. Wm. O’Brien Drury, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean; and in the following July attained the rating of Midshipman. He continued to serve on the station last named from Jan. 1800 until Aug. 1804 in the Cyclops sloop, Capt. John Fyffe; after which we find him employed for five years on board the Pheasant 18, Capts. Robt. Paul, Robt. Henderson, and John Palmer; being during that period successively created, on 2 Nov. 1804 and 28 Aug. 1806, an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant. In the latter capacity, after he had endured a servitude of two years in the West Indies, Mr. Jack accompanied the expedition to the Rio de la Plata under Sir Sam. Achmuty, and was in consequence present at the capture of Monte Video in Feb. 1807. He then served for some time on the coast of Africa, and ultimately on the Home station; where, off the Western Islands, and at the Cape of Good Hope, he was next, from Aug. 1809 until April, 1816, employed on board the Désirée 36, and Liverpool 40, both commanded by Capt. Arthur Farquhar. In the former ship he distinguished himself by his activity as Senior Lieutenant at the blockade of the German rivers, and at the reduction of Cuxhaven and Glückstadt, in Dec. 1813 and Jan. 1814; and when on his return to England in the Liverpool, after having been engaged at the blockade of Ile de Bourbon, he appears to have been nearly lost off Dover, in consequence of that frigate having taken the ground at the foot of Shakspeare’s Cliff, from which perilous position she was only extricated by cutting away all her masts and spars, and throwing overboard her guns, provisions, and stores. Mr. Jack, who had been on half-pay since 1816, accepted his present rank 21 April, 1840.
JACKSON. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Caleb Jackson, born 3 Jan. 1791, in co. Surrey, is a younger brother of the present Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fame, Lieut.-Commander Witherston, lying in Portsmouth Harbour. In March, 1801, he joined the Vengeance 74, Capt. Geo. Duff; and in that ship, until paid off in July, 1802, he served in the Baltic, Bay of Biscay, and West Indies. He re-embarked, in March, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Edgar 74, bearing the flag at first of Lord Keith in the Downs, and afterwards commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Jas. Macnamara, with whom he continued until removed, in May, 1809, to the Antelope 50, Capt. Donald M‘Leod, fitting for the flag of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, Commander-in-Chief at Newfoundland, where he was soon invested with the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, in that capacity, to the Comet sloop, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle. On leaving the latter vessel (to which he had been confirmed by commission dated 11 Dec. 1810) Lieut. Jackson, in the early part of 1812, joined the Valiant 74, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver, lying at Portsmouth, and Herald 18, Capts. Geo. Jackson and Clement Milward, employed on the West India station. After serving for a short time in the Argo 44, bearing the flag at Jamaica of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, he became, in the autumn of 1814, Acting-Commander of the Shark receiving-ship at Port Royal. On his return to the West Indies in April, 1815, in the Warrior 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, he rejoined the Shark, commanded at the time by Capt. Houston Stewart, and next by Capt. Alex. Campbell and himself. In Nov. of the same year and Feb. 1816 he was successively nominated to the acting-command of the Carnation 16, and Emulous 16; the latter of which sloops he brought home and paid off in June, 1816. He was not, however, officially promoted until 12 Aug. 1819; since which period he has not held any appointment.
Commander Jackson married, in 1828, Ursula; widow of Capt. Andrew Dudie, H.M. 44th Infantry.
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 15; h-p., 0.)
Charles Keats Jackson is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sam. Jackson, C.B., a history of whose services we have recorded in the proper place.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 2 March, 1832; and embarked, in 1833, as a Volunteer, on board the Belvidera 42, Capt. Chas. Borough Strong. On his return home in 1837 from the West Indies, where he had been for a long time employed as Midshipman, he sailed, in the Tyne 26, Capt. John Townshend, for the Mediterranean, for the purpose of joining the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, under whom, it appears, he shared in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, and was present at the blockade of Alexandria. Proceeding next to China as Mate (he had passed his examination 12 June, 1839) in the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, he served on shore in a distinguished manner with the rocket brigade under Lieut. Jas. Fitzjames, and was wounded in the attack on the heights of Segoan and Tsekee 15 and 16 March, 1842;[1] and he was present, in the course of the same year, at the taking of Chapoo, the destruction of the batteries at Woosung, the storming of ChinKiang-Foo,[2] and the pacification of Nanking. Being in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 23. Dec. 1842,[3] he was in that capacity appointed, 18 March, 1843, to the Siren 16, Capt. Wm. Smith, with whom he remained in the East Indies until ordered home to be paid off at the close of 1844. Since 9 April, 1845, he has been serving on board the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir John West at Devonport. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 1 6; h-p., 27.)
Charles Scott Jackson entered the Navy, 12 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen 98, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Theophilus Jones and Manley Dixon; served from Aug. J804 to Aug. 1805, on the Mediterranean station, in the Conqueror 74, Capt. Israel Pellew, and Amphitrite frigate, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle; and was next employed, between June, 1806, and Dec. 1809, on board the Captain 74, Capts. Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, Jas. Athol Wood, and Christopher John Williams Nesham. In the latter ship we find him present at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le Président French frigate, of 44 guns; at the bombardment, in 1807, of Copenhagen; and, in 1808-9, at the reduction of Marie-galante, Martinique, and the Saintes. In Nov. 1810, after his name had been borne for nearly 12 months as a Supernumerary on the books of the Royal William, flag-ship at Spithead, he joined the Helena sloop, Capt. Henry Haynes, on the Cork station; whence, we believe, he accompanied the same officer in 1811 to the West Indies on board the Sapphire; from which vessel, in Dec. 1814, he was transferred to a Master’s Mateship in the Chesapeake 38, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, at the Cape of Good Hope. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Dec. 1815; and afterwards appointed – in Aug. 1818 and July, 1819, to the Sapphire again, Capt. Henry Hart, and Bann 20, Capts. Jodrell Leigh, Wilson Braddyll Bigland, and John Ralph Blois, both on the Jamaica station – and, 9 Oct. 1828 and 19 Feb. 1830, to the Ramillies and Talavera Coast-Blockade ships, each commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. He has been on half-pay since the close of the latter year.
