Christopher Murray Jackson

Background

JACKSON, Christopher Murray was born on May 24, 1935. Parents: Reverend Howard Murray Jackson and Doris Bessie Jackson (née Grainger).

Education

Kingswood School, Bath. Magdalen College, Oxford, Open Exhibitioner Bachelor of Arts hons. Physics, 1959, Master of Arts, 1964.

Goethe University, Frankfurt. London School of Economics. Spoken languages: english, french, german, some Spanish.

Career

After a National Service Commission in the Royal Air Force as a pilot, Jackson read physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he was an Open Exhibitioner. Whilst there he founded the Magnates Club which eventually became the Oxford University Guild Society. He then trained in management with Unilever, becoming a senior manager of the Group in 1967.

He contested East Ham South as a Conservative in the 1970 General Election and Northampton North in 1974.

He was Director of Corporate Development of the Spillers Group from 1974 to 1979. In 1984 he proposed the inclusion of subsidiarity in the Draft Treaty on European Union and led a European Parliament delegation, including Altiero Spinelli to the United Kingdom for discussions on the Draft Treaty with the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties, the China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations and the Trades Union Congress. He became Deputy Leader of Conservative MEPs in 1989, remaining in that position until 1991, and Company-President of the European Parliament Working Group on Population and Development.

From 1995-2002 he was Chairman of CJA Consultants Limited and from 1997-2003 Chairman of Natural Resources International Limited. He left the Conservative Party in 1999 and rejoined in 2007.

Jackson has also been the Chairman of Governors of Bethany School, Goudhurst since 1999.

Achievements

• Christopher Murray Jackson has been listed as a noteworthy Corporate executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

He was a Member of the American College of Physicians-European Economic Community Joint Assembly of which he was Rapporteur-General in 1985. He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and of the Athenaeum Club.

Personality

He was elected Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Kent East from 1979 (the first European Parliament Elections) to 1994, he served as Conservative Spokesman on Development Policy. Agriculture; Economic Affairs and Foreign Affairs.

Interests

• Music, gardening, skiing, sailing.

Connections

Son of Howard Murray and Doris Bessie (Grainger) J. M. Carlie Elizabeth Keeling. Children: David B.M., Katie Ampere-hour.

Father:

Howard Murray Jackson

Mother:

Doris Bessie (Grainger) Jackson

Spouse:

Carlie Elizabeth Keeling

child:

Katie Ampere-hour Jackson

child:

David B.M. Jackson