Henry Jackson
Sir Henry Jackson, Q.C., 1st Baronet (22 August 1875 – 23 February 1937), scientist and physician, who was also a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected at the 1924 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth Central, but was narrowly defeated at the 1929 general election by the Labour Party candidate, Archibald Church.
At the next election, in 1931, Church did not stand again, and Jackson retook the seat with a large majority. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until his death in 1937, aged 61.
He was knighted on 1 March 1924 and made a baronet on 4 July 1935 for "services in connection with transport questions". The title became extinct on his death
1937 Obituary [1]
IT is with deep regret that we have to chronicle the sudden death of Sir Henry Jackson, the Chairman of the London Traffic Advisory Committee. Sir Henry was one of the principal guests at the dinner given on Tuesday evening, February 23rd, by the Wandsworth branch of the National Association of Government Officers at the Arlington Rooms, Clapham Junction. He collapsed on completing his speech and was at once taken to the Bolingbroke Hospital, but died before his arrival.
Sir Henry, although not an engineer by training, had interested himself for many years in traffic and transport problems, and since 1932 had been Chairman of the Standing Committee on Mineral Transport. He was also Chairman of the London and Home Counties Advisory Committee on Traffic, and an Electing Trustee of the London Passenger Transport Board.
Sir Henry was born at Heywood, Lancashire, and was educated a t the Bury Grammar School and at the Universities of Cambridge, London, and Edinburgh. For some time he was a Fellow and Tutor of Downing College, Cambridge, and he practised as a physician for many years at Putney Hill. He was Chairman of the Greater London Joint Smoke Abatement Committee, and also interested himself in local and parliamentary work, being the Conservative member for Central Wandsworth.
He contributed valuable scientific papers to the "Proceedings" of the Royal Society, the Cambridge Philosophical Society. and the Chemical Society.
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- ↑ The Engineer 1937/02/26 p248