William Walrond Jackson (9 January 181125 November 1895) was

Bishop of Antigua The Anglican Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba was originally established in 1842 as the Diocese of Antigua and the Leeward Islands when the Anglican Diocese of Barbados, then with the Diocese of Jamaica, one of the two dioceses covering th ...

from 1860 to 1879.

Life

He was the son of William Jackson of

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, Cheshire, England, and Mary Judith Walrond. Jackson was educated at

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and

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(although his degrees, awarded later, were

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s), and ordained in 1834. After a

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at Holy Trinity,

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, he held incumbencies in St Vincent and

. From 1846 to 1860 he was Chaplain to the

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when he was appointed to the

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 17 May 1860, and returned to England through ill health in 1879. He retained his See only in the legal sense, with the work carried out by

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s John Mitchinson (until 1882) and Charles Branch. Jackson died on 25 November 1895, aged 84, at home in

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, West London.

Family

Jackson married Mary Pile, daughter of Conrade Pile of the Brighton estate, Barbados. Of their sons,

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became Rector of

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, and

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became Governor of the Leeward Islands, then Fiji, then Trinidad and Tobago.

References

1811 births 1895 deaths Barbadian religious leaders Alumni of Codrington College Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 19th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican bishops of Antigua Holders of a Lambeth degree Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers {{anglican-bishop-stub