Walrond Jackson
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| name = William Walrond Jackson
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1811|1|9|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|11|25|1811|1|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Ealing, London, England
| education = Codrington College
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| occupation = Bishop of Antigua, 1860–1879
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| spouse = Mary Pile
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| relatives = William Jacson (son); Henry Jackson (son)
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William Walrond Jackson (9 January 1811{{snd}}25 November 1895) was Bishop of Antigua from 1860"The Bishopric of Antigua." The Times Tuesday, 3 April 1860; p. 9; Issue 23584; col C. to 1879."Obituary: The Bishop of Antigua", The Times, Tuesday, 26 November 1895; p. 6; Issue 34744; col C.
Life
File:St Mary's Church, Ealing, modern brass to William Jackson, Bishop of Antigua,(d 1896).jpg
He was the son of William Jackson of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, and Mary Judith Walrond.{{cite book|author=Debrett|title=Illustrated peerage, and titles of courtesy, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jrmY_qqD84C&pg=PA386|accessdate=18 March 2013|year=1865|page=386}}{{cite book|title=Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofbar00bran|url-access=registration|accessdate=18 March 2013|year=1983|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-1004-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofbar00bran/page/575 575]–}} Jackson was educated at Codrington College, Barbados and Queens' College, Cambridge (although his degrees, awarded later, were Lambeth degrees),{{acad|id=JK841WW|name=Jackson, the Rev. William Walrond}} and ordained in 1834.The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co., 1889.
After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Trinidad, he held incumbencies in St Vincent and Barbados. From 1846 to 1860 he was Chaplain to the Forces when he was appointed to the episcopate. 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 coadjutor bishops John Mitchinson (until 1882){{Cite ODNB|id=47175|title=Mitchinson, John}} and Charles Branch. Jackson died on 25 November 1895, aged 84, at home in Ealing, West London.[https://www.nytimes.com/1895/11/26/archives/death-of-bishop-of-antigua.html "Death of Bishop of Antigua"]. The New York Times, 26 November 1895, p. 5.
Family
Jackson married Mary Pile, daughter of Conrade Pile of the Brighton estate, Barbados.{{cite book|title=Thom's Directory of Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_z89AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA250|year=1874|page=250}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/3614|title=Summary of Individual Conrade Pile, 1782–1864, Legacies of British Slave-ownership|accessdate=28 November 2017}} Of their sons, William became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Henry became Governor of the Leeward Islands, then Fiji, then Trinidad and Tobago.
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