1957
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(Company Director)
Born in Southampton 23rd July 1900, but moved to Leicester in 1914 and commenced work in a biscuit factory at South Wigston for 5 /~ per week.
Served in the Leicestershire Regiment during the later stages of the 1914/18 war with the Rhine Army of Occupation. Afterwards he spent ten years as a railway cleaner and locomotive fireman, subsequently working in the Engineering Department of the Leicester Co-Operative Society and later still as General Secretary of the National Growers Association, and then as a Welfare Officer to a local firm of Building Contractors.
Before reaching the age of 16, Alderman Jackson was active in the Trade Union Movement and joined the Independent Labour Party in 1916. In 1926 he was Honorary Secretary of the Leicester Branch of the League of the Blind. He was President of the Leicester and District Trades Council in 1930, of the Leicester Labour Party in 1942 and of the British Marketing Authorities Association in 1947. Alderman Jackson was first elected to the City Council in 1928 and to the Aldermanic Bench in 1951.He was High Bailiff of the City in 1953/54 during the Lord Mayoralty of Alderman C. R. Keene. He has served on most Committees of the City Council, has been Chairman of the Health Committee for six years, and was Chairman of the Markets Committee from 1937 to 1948. Since 1955 he has been a member of the National Food Hygiene Advisory Council and is also Chairman of the Leicester Clean Food Guild. He is a member of the Cromer Hospital Management Committee.
The outstanding feature of Alderman Jackson's year of Office as Lord Mayor was the visit to the City of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on the 9th May 1958. Whilst in Leicester Her Majesty opened the Percy Gee Building at the University and with His Royal Highness toured the factory of N. Corah (St. Margaret) Ltd., and visited the De Montfort Hall and the Town Hall. The visit was made particularly memorable by the warm and enthusiastic welcome extended to the Royal Visitors by the people of Leicester.
In 1925 Alderman Jackson was married to Constance Elizabeth Ashton. They have one son. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the City Council in her own right having represented Charnwood Ward since 1945 and 1957/58 was the first year on record when both the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress were serving on the City Council at the time they held Office.
