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Daphne Jackson married Alan Holmes-Watson, an officer in the Royal Dragoons, in 1925. They had one daughter before Holmes-Watson died of heatstroke on 1 August 1931 while serving at Campbellpore in India. His widow married Jack Mason and like her mother, died young.

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JACKSON, Sir CHARLES JAMES (1849-1923), businessman and collector
Name: Charles James Jackson
Date of birth: 1849
Date of death: 1923
Spouse: Ada Elizabeth Jackson (née Williams)
Spouse: Agnes Catherine Jackson (née Martin)
Child: Diana Daphne Beatrix Holmes-Watson (née Jackson)
Child: Derek Ainslie Jackson
Child: Charles Vivian Jackson
Parent: Mary Ann Jackson (née Bass)
Parent: James Edwin Jackson
Sex: Male
Occupation: businessman and collector
Field of activity: Art and Architecture; Industry and Business; Law; Printing and Publishing
Author: David Lewis Jones
He was born in Monmouth on 2 May 1849, the son of James Edwin Jackson (or, sometimes, Edwin James Jackson) and Mary Ann Bass. The son of a leading builder in Monmouth, James Jackson had joined his father's company at a young age. Around 1860 Jackson moved to Cardiff and his son, Charles, became a builder with his father. The father and son designed and built buildings allowing Charles Jackson to describe himself as an architect. The family established a thriving business in Cardiff and invested heavily in property, particularly commercial property.

In 1879 Charles Jackson stood as an independent candidate in the Rhath ward on Cardiff Council but he was at the bottom of the vote. He was more successful on 1 November 1882 when he was elected as the Conservative member of the Eastern Ward of the council. He presented himself as the highest tax payer in the ward and in his campaign speeches he promised to save money for the taxpayers. He kept his promise when he persuaded the council to issue Cardiff Corporation bonds at 3% interest which generated enough funding to repay the council's loans at 5% interest. In 1885 Jackson decided to pursue a new career as a barrister and resigned from the council in 1887. Although he did not receive a university education Jackson was an able student and won prizes in his second and third years. He joined the Middle Temple in January 1888 and established a practice on the South Wales Circuit and as a parliamentary barrister on private measures. With his background in the construction world Jackson often appeared in construction cases.

The owner of the Western Mail , Henry Lascelles Carr , had married Helen Sarah, the eldest sister of Charles Jackson. Carr bought the News of the World in 1891 and sent his nephew, Emsley Carr, to London as the paper's editor. Helen Carr died in 1900 and Lascelles Carr in 1902. Charles Jackson had invested in the News of the World and was made one of the paper's directors in 1893. He was living in London by 1901 and Carr succeededis chairman of the paper. He would be at the press on the nights of the weekly printing, giving half-a-crown tips to the production and distribution staff to ensure they caught the newspaper train. Charles Jackson remained chairman of the paper until his death. Emsley Carr was a successful editor and through his investment in the News of the World together with his property holdings in south Wales, Jackson became a wealthy man.

Jackson's great passion was silver objects. He studied in detail the silver works of museums and ecclesiastical and civic collections. Gradually he built his own collection, spoons in particular, and he was recognized as an expert in the field. He read a paper on 13 February 1890, to the Society of Antiquaries on the spoon and its history; Queen Victoria allowed the Coronation silver plated spoon to be displayed at the meeting of the Society. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries within the year. Around 1886 Jackson began to prepare a history of English silverware but noticed that a description of the gold and silver marks was not available and therefore abandoned the history and began to draw up a description of marks. English goldsmiths and their marks was published in 1905 and was followed byAn illustrated history of English plate ecclesiastical and secular in 1911. Both books were influential in the development of silverware studies. A second edition of the guide to goals was published in 1921. Jackson assumed that a further edition would come after his death and had stated that Llewelyn Davies, the agent of his Welsh possessions, should assist in the preparation of future editions as he had assisted Jackson with the earlier books. But the third edition of the guide to marks did not appear until 1989 when it was edited by Ian Pickford and published under the title Jackson's silver and gold marks of England, Scotland and Ireland ; pocket edition in 1994.

Charles Jackson was married twice. His first wife, Agnes Catherine Martin, is described in the Cardiff records of the 1881 census as a British woman born in Boulougne. His second wife was Ada Elizabeth Williams, born in Cardiff in 1877, the daughter of Samuel Owen Williams, a railway weigher and then a hotel owner. When Jackson moved to London he lived with his second wife in Hampstead and later at 6 Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge.

Jackson was knighted in 1919 for his service to the Red Cross during the War. He died at his home on 23 April 1923 and was buried in Putney Vale cemetery. Ada Elizabeth Jackson, of whom not much is known, died on 10 June 1924 and after a funeral service at Brompton Place church on 12 June she was buried in Putney Vale cemetery. She left a legacy of £5000 to Cardiff Royal Hospital in memory of her husband with a request for the children's ward to be known as 'Sir Charles and Lady Jackson's Ward'.

Charles and Ada Jackson had three children, Diana Daphne Beatrix, born in 1901, and identical twins, Charles Vivian and Derek Ainslie, born 23 June 1906. None of the children were baptized as Jackson believed the they should decide for themselves. Lord Riddell, who succeeded Charles Jackson as chairman of the News of the World , was named guardian of the children should the mother die in their youth. Riddell, the Western Mail lawyer in London, was friends over the years with the Jackson and Carr families.

Daphne Jackson married Alan Holmes-Watson, an officer in the Royal Dragoons, in 1925. They had one daughter before Holmes-Watson died of heatstroke on 1 August 1931 while serving at Campbellpore in India. His widow married Jack Mason and like her mother, died young.

The twins, Vivian and Derek, were talented children and their father supported them by providing the expensive equipment they needed in their scientific interests. Vivian Jackson graduated from Oriel College, Oxford and got a job as an astrophysicist at Imperial College, London. In October 1927 he married Mary, daughter of Bertram Roberts, Saltaire but the marriage was short lived. His second wife, who he married on 19 June 1932, was Maria Stella Wynn, only child of the 5th Baron Newborough, and they had one child. Vivian Jackson was killed in St Moritz 30 December 1936. He was in the company of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, an American actress, when he insisted on taking the reins of the drag car in the snow but the horses became angry and Vivian Jackson was thrown out hitting his head against a kilometer stone . He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium on 19 January 1938. Among the mourners were the family,

Derek Jackson graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge but moved to Oxford University where he was a lecturer from 1934 to 1937 and Professor of Spectroscopy from 1947 to 1957. On account of his significant scientific work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947 .He married Poppet, daughter of Augustus John, in 1931. His second wife, whom he married in 1936, was Pamela Freeman-Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters; they were divorced in 1951. Janetta, ex-wife of Robert Kee the writer, was his third wife but the marriage was annulled in 1956. The fourth wife was Consuelo Regina Maria, ex-wife of Prince Ernest Ratibor Hohenloe Schillenfurst, and this marriage continued from 1957 to 1959. The fifth wife, from 1966 to 1968, was Barbara Skelton, who was married to the writer Cyril Connolly. He married for the sixth time, and for the last time, in 1968 to Marie-Christine, daughter of Baron George Reille. Derek Jackson had a daughter from his third marriage. After a distinguished career as a scientist and a successful career as a racehorse owner, Derek Jackson died in Lausanne on 20 February 1982. During his last years he greatly enjoyed watching Wales'

Sir Charles Jackson left two important legacies in trust for his children: the shares in the News of the World and the money collection. While Lord Riddell was the children's guardian he convinced a judge to allow the sale of part of the contributions, apparently considering that it was not wise for the trust to hold all its shares in the same company. Riddell himself bought these shares and bequeathed them to the Carr family. This angered Derek Jackson and he decided to sell his shares in 1969, and when the Carr family were unwilling to pay more than the market price Jackson was happy to consider a higher offer from Robert Maxwell. The Carr family asked Rupert Murdoch to help them defeat Maxwell's attempt to take over the paper;

Sir Charles Jackson's wish was to keep his money collection one. He loaned some items to the Victoria and Albert Museum and may have once intended for the museum to hold the entire collection. When the National Museum of Wales opened its new building in Cardiff Jackson agreed to lend around a hundred items, a quarter of the collection, to the museum. Gradually more of the collection came to Cardiff and when the important collection of spoons was transferred to the National Museum in 1947 the whole collection was united. For the next sixty years the collection was held by the National Museum but in the possession of the Jackson family trust. In 2001, with the help of various grants, the museum purchased half of the collection and the other half, which is still in the possession of the family trust, remains under the protection of the museum.

Author
David Lewis Jones
Sources
Who was who? 1916-28
Contemporary portraits men and women of South Wales and Monmouthshire (Cardiff 1897)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DA Jackson)
Western Mail 25 June 1892 (obituary of JE Jackson)
The Times 24 August 1923, 11 September, 13 October 1924, 31 December 1936, 12 January 1937
Census records for 1881 and 1901
Simon Courtauld, As I was going to St. Ives a life of Derek Jackson (2007)
Diana Mosley, Loved ones pen portraits (London 1985)
Cyril Bainbridge and Roy Stockdill, The News of the World story 150 years of the World's bestselling newspaper (London 1993)
Charles James Jackson, " The spoon and its history its form, material, and development, more particularly in England ", Archaeologia 53 (1893); 107-46
Andrew Renton, “ Sir Charles James Jackson (1849-1923) ”, Silver Studies - the Journal of the Silver Society 19 (2005): 144-46
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Publication date: 2011-04-13

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