Person:Louis Jackson (37)

Louis Charles Jackson was b. 1st qtr 1856 at Worthing, Sussex (bmd). Louis Charles Jackson married Bessy Vivian 3rd qtr 1885 at Kensington (bmd). Louis Charles Jackson, Lieut. R.E., 2nd surviving son of Sir Louis Stuart Jackson, CIE, of Hadleigh Hall, Suffolk, married Bessie, 3rd daughter of William Vivian, esq., of Bolton Gdns, S. Kensington, 10sep1885 at Kensington (Times). In 1881 Louis Jackson (1856 Rustington, Sussex, Lieut Royal Engineers) lodged at Northumberland (census). Maj Gen Sir Louis Charles Jackson KBE, CB, CMG, late Royal Engineers, son of the late Sir Louis Steuart Jackson, CIE, d. 8oct1946, aged 90, at London; Brigadier and Mrs. Jackson and Mr. S.D. Gladstone were at the funeral (Times).

Who was who: JACKSON, Major-Gen. Sir Louis (Charles) KBE, 1918; CB 1917; CMG 1906; RE Born 7 March 1856; s of late Sir Louis Steuart Jackson, CIE, BCS; m 1885, Bessie (d 1938), d of late W. Vivian; one s one d ; died 8 Oct. 1946 Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1917; Knight of St Stanislas (1st class), 1918 Education Somersetshire Coll., Bath; RMA, Woolwich Career Served Afghanistan, 1879 (medal); ADC to Governor of Leeward Islands, 1883; Instructor in Fortification and Military Engineering, SME, Chatham, 1895-1902; Commissioner for Anglo-German Boundary of Northern Nigeria, Central Africa, 1902-04; CRE Dublin, 1904-06; Assistant Director of Fortifications and Works, War Office, 1907-10; Chief Engineer, London District, 1910-13; retired 1913; reappointed Assistant Director, War Office, Aug. 1914; a Director-General in Ministry of Munitions, 1915; Controller Trench Warfare Research, 1916-17; visited Russian Front on duty, 1916; employed by WO on special duty in Canada, 1918; retired as Hon. Maj.-General, Nov. 1918 Publications History of the United Service Club, 1937; Fortification and Siegecraft, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. articles Poison Gas and Military Mining in Supplement Club United Service