Henry (the father) Jackson
| Henry (the father) Jackson MRCS, FRCS, LSA | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1806 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1866 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
St James's Row Sheffield | ||||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||||
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5 nov 1851: Resolved that Mr Henry Jackson of Sheffield have a copy of Vol. 1 of the Journal sent to him gratis.
JASL: Henry Jackson, F.R.C.S., etc., only son of Henry Jackson, Esq., Surgeon, was born at Sheffield in the year 1806. His professional education, commenced under his father's superintendence, was continued at Dublin under Messr's. Cusack and Macartney, and completed in London at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1830, having obtained the customary diplomas, he began to practise in his native town. Two years later he was elected Honorary Surgeon to the Sheffield General Infirmary ; and from that time until his resignation a few days before his death, performed the duties of his post with unfailing interest and zeal. On the fifteenth of June last it was discovered that Mr. Jackson was suffering from an aneurism of the popliteal sj>ace. Amputation was resorted to, but without success. He died on the twenty -fifth of June. Professionally Mr. Jackson possessed sound judgment, great sagacity, and remarkable facility of resource. He had a profound knowledge of the works of eminent surgeons of all ages and countries, and was always eager to appreciate and to welcome the discoveries and improvements of modern science. Mr. Jackson was a student of all branches of literature. It is to be regretted that professional duties allowed him no time to publish any record of his thoughts and observations on his favourite pursuits. In fact he has left a vast collection of miscellaneous notes, but no connected compositions, except a few papers read before the Medical and Philosophical Societies of Sheffield.
1866.06.25 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
Born in November, 1806, the only son of Henry Jackson, a distinguished surgeon of Sheffield; he was himself well educated and followed his father as a prominent surgeon in large practice in Sheffield. He was a pupil of William Staniforth, junr, in 1825, and was elected Surgeon to the Sheffield General Infirmary on Sept 10th, 1832, "after a sharp contest", says the minute, in succession to John Favell. He offered to lecture on clinical surgery at the infirmary in 1834. The offer was declined, but eventually he became Lecturer on Surgery in the Sheffield Medical School. He was also a bibliophile, an antiquarian, interested in local topography, and well acquainted with the progress of science. He presided when Richard Owen lectured to the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society in 1858.
He had kept the existence of a right popliteal aneurysm to himself in spite of pain, and was in active discharge of his surgical duty at the infirmary on June 22nd when he was forced to return home exhausted. Hey, of Leeds, was called in consultation, and W Favell the same day amputated in the presence of Jackson's colleagues. He died two days later, on June 24th, 1866, at his house in St James's Row, Sheffield, where his father had lived before him. He married Miss Swettenham, sister of Mrs Overend. His eldest son, Henry, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and lectured on Greek philosophy; the second son, Arthur (d1895), was Surgeon to the Sheffield Infirmary. A subscription bust by William Ellis was presented to the infirmary in January, 1860.