A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jackson, Cyril
JACKSON. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Cyril Jackson, born 23 Feb. 1812, is son of the late Wm. Ward Jackson, Esq., of Normanby Hall, co. York (N.R.).
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in 1825; and embarked, in 1827, on board the Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle in North America. In 1831 he became Mate of the Undaunted 46, commanded at the Cape of Good Hope by Capt. Howard Harvey. On his removal from that ship, in 1833, to the Belvidera 42, Capt. Chas. Borough Strong, he proceeded to the West Indies; and he subsequently, we find, took an active part in quelling some disturbances which had broken out at Para, where the ringleaders were pursued into the interior of the country and captured. On obtaining his commission, 28 Nov. 1836, Mr. Jackson was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Melville 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget on the North America and West India station. His next appointment was, 1 June, 1837, to the Wolverene 16, in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in 1839; and his last, for a short period in 1840, to the Howe 120, Capt, Sir Watkin Owen Pell.