Algernon Brooker Jackson
Algernon Brooker Jackson (1859-1925) of Farrow and Jackson
1926 Obituary [1]
ALGERNON BROOKER JACKSON was born in 1859, and after receiving his early education at the Moravian School, Ockbrook, Derbyshire, passed on to their German establishment at Neuwiedon-Rhine. This was followed by a few terms at University College, London, a year or two at the Moravian School at Prangin, Switzerland, and a course of theoretical engineering at the University of Hanover.
He served his apprenticeship from 1878 to 1881 in the general engineering works of Messrs. Thomas Middleton and Co., Southwark, and then after a short period in Rochdale with Messrs. W. Tatham and Co., cotton spinning machinists, he entered in 1883 the employment of Messrs. Ferranti, Thompson, and Ince, Ltd., electrical engineers, of Finsbury, as assistant works manager, with whom he remained until 1885.
He then joined his father's firm of Farrow and Jackson, manufacturing engineers, of Great Tower Street, London, becoming a partner in 1886 and, later, a director when the business was converted into a private limited company. The firm gave special attention to soda-water and beer carbonating and bottling machinery, and they were the first to introduce into this country and bring into general commercial use liquefied carbonic acid gas.
Mr. Jackson's connexion with this family business lasted for 38 years and was, only terminated by his death which occurred at Harpenden, on 23rd October 1925.
He held a Commission for fourteen years in the Middlesex and Herts Volunteer Regiments, and acted as interpreter in charge of German Prisoners of War Camp.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1898.