Background
JACKSON, Thomas Graham was born on December 21, 1835 in Hampstead. Son of Hugh Jackson, solicitor, and Eliza, daughter of Thomas Graham Arnold, Doctor of Medicine.
JACKSON, Thomas Graham was born on December 21, 1835 in Hampstead. Son of Hugh Jackson, solicitor, and Eliza, daughter of Thomas Graham Arnold, Doctor of Medicine.
Studied at, Brighton College. Wadham College Oxford (Scholar 1 1854). Doctor of Laws, Cambridge, 1910.
Master of Arts.
Works: at Oxford: new Examination Schools of University; Restoration of Bodleian Library, Saint Mary's and All Saints Churches; new buildings j for Brasenose, Lincoln, Corpus, Trinity, Balliol, and Hertford Colleges, new Radcliffe Library, Electric Laboratory, Somerville Hall, City High School and High School for Girls, et cetera; new Sedgwick Memorial Museum, Archaeological Museum and new Law Library and Law School at Cambridge; restorations at Eltham Palace, Rushton Hall, Great Malvern Priory, Portsmouth Church, Bath Abbey, Christchurch Priory, and Winchester Cathedral; new churches at Annesley, Ilornblotton, Wimbledon, Stratton, Aldershot, Northington, Curdridge, Narberth; new buildings for following public schools: Eton, Westminster, Rugby, Harrow, Radley, Uppingham, Brighton, Giggleswick, Aldenham, Cranbrook, Sandwich; new buildings for Inner Temple, Drapers’ Hall; several private houses.He is best remembered for his work at Oxford for Oxford Military College as well as the University, notably: the Examination Schools, most of Hertford College (including the Bridge of Sighs over New College Lane), much of Brasenose College, a range at Trinity College, and the Acland Nursing Home in North Oxford. Much of his career was devoted to the architecture of education and he worked extensively for various schools, notably Giggleswick and his own alma mater Brighton College. Jackson designed the former town hall in Tipperary Town, Ireland.
He also worked on many parish churches and the college chapel at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
The City of Oxford High School in George Street, Oxford was another building designed by him. He was educated at Brighton College and then Wadham College, Oxford, of which he wrote a history, before being articled as a pupil to Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Jackson was a prolific author of carefully researched works in architectural history, often illustrated with sketches made during his extensive travels. He and Norman Shaw edited "Architecture, A Profession or an Art" published in 1892, to which William H. White replied by publishing "The Architect and his artists, an essay to assist the public in considering the question is architecture a profession or an art".
This had been part of the course of events which resulted in the passing of the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938 which established the statutory Register of Architects and monopolistic restrictions on the use of the vernacular word "architect", imposed with threat of penalty on prosecution for infringement.
In 1919, Jackson wrote a collection of supernatural stories, Six Ghost Stories. These stories were written under the influence of M. R. James, and Jackson expressed admiration for James" work in the book"s introduction. Foreign that school"s chapel he had also designed many memorials during the 1880s and 1890s.
The other concentrated group of mural tablets by Jackson is to be found in the antechapel of Wadham College in Oxford.
Jackson"s pupils and assistants included Evelyn Hellicar. Jackson was created a Baronet, of Eagle House in Wimbledon in Surrey, in 1913.
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Clubs: Athenaeum, Royal Societies.