William Jackson (priest)

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William Walrond Jackson (1838–1931) was the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1887 to 1913.{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63875 |title=Exeter College |editor1-first=H. E. |editor1-last=Salter |editor2-first=Mary D. |editor2-last=Lobel |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1954 |work=A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford |accessdate=18 March 2013 }} He was born at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and was the eldest son of the Bishop of Antigua Walrond Jackson. He was educated at Codrington College, Barbados and Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating in 1856, graduating B.A. 1860 (M.A. 1863).{{cite wikisource|title=Alumni Oxonienses|chapter=Jackson, William Walrond|wslink=Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886|last=Foster|first=Joseph|author-link=Joseph Foster (genealogist)}}

Jackson was elected as a Fellow of Exeter College in 1863, was Sub-Rector 1878–83 and honorary fellow from 1913. He was censor of the Oxford non-collegiate students from 1883 to 1887.{{cite web|url=https://henson.durham.ac.uk/people/person93|title=William Walrond Jackson|publisher=durham.ac.uk|accessdate=11 December 2018}} He married Amelia Jackson in 1887. Jackson was the first Rector of the College who was not an Exeter undergraduate, and the last to be in holy orders.