Amelia Jackson

Amelia Jackson, born Amelia Staines, was the only child of Francis William Staines, a wealthy London merchant. She was brought up in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. She married Augustus Burke Shepherd, a London physician, who died in 1887. She subsequently married William Walrond Jackson Jr shortly after he became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in 1887. They had no children but Amelia was a keen musician and an active participant in the social and cultural life of the college. Amelia inherited a fortune both from her father and her first husband, the bulk of which she left to the college. Her money now supports graduate studentships{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/news/studentships |title=Exeter College – Graduate Studentships |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806195015/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/news/studentships |archive-date=6 August 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} and junior members suffering hardship; she is the greatest benefactor to Exeter College in modern times.

After her death in 1925 her husband wrote a book on the life of Amelia Jackson which was privately printed and is now available in the Bodleian Library.Amelia Jackson: a memoir by W. W. Jackson, Oxford, 1925

Amelia Jackson was ideally suited to the responsibility that her second marriage had brought on her. She was intelligent and cultivated and took a lively interest in all the activities of the college. As a keen amateur musician, she attracted to her drawing room many fine musicians. She entertained every undergraduate to Sunday lunch at least twice a year. Her interest in the Chapel services and the choir extended to her presenting the chapel with a new hymnbook which was widely considered an improvement on the previous edition. Amelia not only possessed leadership skills but her personality commanded respect and affection from those around her. She once told her husband that her mother had predicted ‘that nature had formed her to be the head of a large establishment’. As Exeter's First Lady she blossomed in the role of the Rector's wife, providing a focus for the social and cultural life of the college and, in so doing, won the respect and affection of all who knew her.{{Cite web|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-01.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609072856/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-01.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Exeter College Register 2001 – see Amelia Jackson|archive-date=9 June 2011|access-date=13 August 2020}}

After the Rector resigned in 1913 the Jacksons lived at 18 Bardwell Road, north Oxford, where they continued to receive visitors. They also spent much of their time after 1913 in their house in the Lake District, Singleton Park, entertaining visitors with the same characteristic warmth. Amelia's consideration for people from every walk of life, whether they were distinguished colleagues of her husband's or the kitchen staff, was one of her most endearing characteristics; all were treated with kindness and civility.

In 2013 Exeter College created the Amelia Jackson Society to thank and recognise those alumni and Friends who have pledged a legacy gift to the college. The Society members meet annually for talks by Fellows and Amelia Jackson Scholars (postgraduate students), a luncheon, and a recital by members of the Chapel Choir.

• 1947: Roger Bannister[http://csmdnations.org/alumni/famous.html]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 1948: G. R. Allen{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/2662077|title=The Growth of Industry on Trading Estates, 1920-39, with Special Reference to Slough Trading Estate |journal=Oxford Economic Papers|jstor=2662077 |access-date=13 August 2020|last1=Allen |first1=G. R. |year=1951 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=272–300 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041838 |url-access=subscription }}
• 1949: A. F. Walls
• 1951: Kenneth Simmonds{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-kenneth-simmonds-1617948.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042411/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-kenneth-simmonds-1617948.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=OBITUARY : Professor Kenneth Simmonds|date=3 May 1995|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=13 August 2020}}
• 1974: Andy Ross{{Cite web|url=http://www.andyross.net/biography.htm|title=A Brief Autobiography|website=Andyross.net|access-date=13 August 2020}}
• 1980: Nigel Glen
• 1986: Rachel Falconer{{Cite web |url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/content/1/c6/06/15/16/RF_CV_March08.pdf |title=Rachel Falconer CV |website=Sheffield.ac.uk|access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080941/http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/content/1/c6/06/15/16/RF_CV_March08.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 1991: Michael Efroimsky
• 1997: I Brunton{{Cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/231097/coll.htm |title=Oxford Gazette 1997 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195832/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/231097/coll.htm |archive-date=18 July 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 1998: Jonathan Davis, Ruth Griffin{{Cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/221098/coll.htm |title=Oxford Gazette 1998 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609225254/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/221098/coll.htm |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• 2000: D. J. Flowerdew, Bonnie Latimer{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-00.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2000 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609073347/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-00.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2001: O. D. Lan, T. Green{{Cite web|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-01.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609072856/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-01.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Exeter College Register 2001|archive-date=9 June 2011|access-date=13 August 2020}}
• 2003: Liam Condon, Micahel A Floyd, Michael J Hugman, Eleni Lianta{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-03.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2003 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609073418/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-03.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2006: Dirk-Jan Omtzigt{{Cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-dirk-jan-omtzigt/7/658/b13|title=LinkedIN profile|website=Linkedin.com|access-date=13 August 2020}}
• 2008: Rachel Harland, Shuo Qu, Nauman Shah{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-08.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2008 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609073443/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-08.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2009: Karen Collis{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-09.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2009 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609073514/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-09.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2010: Ursula Hackett{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-10.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2010 |access-date=14 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719095044/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-10.pdf |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2011: Akshat Rathi and Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-11.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2011 |access-date=13 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224085043/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/documents/alumni/publications/register-11.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2012: Georgios Anastasiades, Francisca Gale, Francis Hutton-Williams, Michael Mayo, Toni Weis and Steffan Blayney{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/register-12.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2012 |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123145347/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/register-12.pdf |archive-date=23 January 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 2013: Emily Dolmans, Myriam Frenkel, Elizabeth Houghton, Max Muir{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/register-13.pdf |title=Exeter College Register 2013 |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924044528/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/register-13.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

• 1998: Isla Gilmour{{Cite web |url=http://eprints.maths.ox.ac.uk/36/1/gilmour.pdf |title=DPhil Thesis |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720004620/http://eprints.maths.ox.ac.uk/36/1/gilmour.pdf |archive-date=20 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• 2001: John Walter{{Cite web |url=http://www.johnwalter.net/CV.html |title=John Walter CV |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816052300/http://www.johnwalter.net/CV.html |archive-date=16 August 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

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