A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jackson, Robert Aemilius
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 18; h-p., 23.)
Robert Aemilius Jackson, born 29 Nov. 1793, is son of Robt. Jackson, Esq., of Hampton, Jamaica, who was Supreme Judge of the Court of Justiciary and Member of the House of Assemblyy and in the Maroon war commanded a brigade or 3000 men. He is brother of Major John Serocold Jackson, late of the 22nd Regt. of Foot, and for many years Brigade-Major at Plymouth; and of Capt. Jas. Irving Jackson, of the 6th Foot, Aide-de-Camp to Prince William of Gloucester, who died in 1809.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 84, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield; and in Sept. 1807 attained the rating of Midshipman. Removing in Oct. 1808 to the Montagu 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, he served in one of the boats of that ship at the reduction of Sta. Maura in April, 1810; after which we find him, from May, 1811, until Aug. 1815, employed, on the Home, north coast of Spain, Cork, and West India stations, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, Insolent 14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, and Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday. During the term of his attachment to the Insolent Mr. Jackson co-operated, in 1812, in the reduction of the Spanish town of Santander. He was frequently also placed in the command of prizes; and on one of those occasions, in Oct. 1813, while he was conducting a Norwegian boat from off Flekeroe to Gottenborg, he was benumbed in the right thigh from extreme exposure to the cold, and so injured that he was ultimately for many years rendered incapable of the least exertion, and is even now scarcely able to bend the knee – effects which we believe were accelerated, if not aggravated, by his endeavours to stop a leak in the stern-plank of a Danish sloop, with which he was shortly afterwards sent to Yarmouth. On leaving the Tigre, as above, Mr. Jackson, who had passed his .examination 7 Oct. 1812, took up a commission da!ed 1 March, 1815. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which he served from 12 Jan. 1835, until July, 1843.
He married, 24 Dec. 1816; and has issue six children.