Charles Bernard Jackson
c.1911
Matriculation
Charles Bernard Jackson was born in 1893 in Woodville, Derbyshire, the eldest of three boys, and grew up in nearby Swadlincote, where his father worked as a pottery warehouseman. He attended Burton Grammar School and later resided at St Anselm’s Hostel, during which time he was a matriculation student. It is unclear, however, whether Charles went on to take a degree. In 1916, he joined the First World War as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, eventually rising to Captain. Whilst there, he witnessed the surprise first British tank attack, which took place on the Somme in September 1916.
After the war, Charles remained in the Royal Engineers until the 1920s, when ill health forced him to retire. He subsequently established and ran ‘C.B. Jackson & Co’, a central heating company based in Hobart-Place, London. Among their other work, the company was responsible for the installation of the central heating in Marks & Spencers, Queen Street, Cardiff in 1934, a system noted to ‘[give] constant temperature in the main building, ensuring comfort to customers although it may be freezing outside.’ Charles died at his home in Edgeware in July 1943, shortly before his 50th birthday, and was survived by his wife Florence.
Glynn Jackson
1920-1922
A native of Liverpool, Glynn was born in the Toxteth district in January 1895 and lived there with his father, William, a grocers clerk, his mother Elizabeth and his older brother Thomas. The 1911 census shows that, while Thomas was studying at University, Glynn was following in his father’s footsteps and was working as a junior commercial clerk in the jute trade (jute being a fibre imported from India.)
During the 1st World War Glynn served on Home Service (that is to say on British soil) with the 560th Labour Corps, who were based in Chester. After the war, Glynn studied at the University of Manchester and was a student of St Anselm Hall prior to the 1921 merger. After graduating in 1922, he completed his theological training at St. Boniface, an Anglican college in Warminster, Wiltshire. Glynn’s contact with the hall after graduation was limited and in 1949 he wrote to the hall ‘I haven’t seen very much of [the hall] since I left in 1922, except on a few occasions from the outside only.’
On being ordained in 1924, Glynn was appointed junior curate at Blackburn parish church and in 1926, as the parish church became the Cathedral of the new Blackburn diocese, he was made senior curate. On his departure from Blackburn in 1929, the provost (dean) is quoted as saying “Mr Jackson has been a kindly, loyal and useful colleague to me in every way, and I shall part from him with genuine regret.”
From 1929, Glynn was priest in charge of Holy Cross, South Shore, Blackpool and from 1933 he was priest at St. Mark’s, Witton, appointed on the authority of the Rev. John Sinker, whom he had served under as curate at Blackburn.
In 1937, Glynn was given the living of St. Peter’s, Accrington, Lancashire, where he served through the Second World War, being made Army Welfare Officer for the Accrington district in 1944. He was later rural dean of Accrington and diocesan moral welfare chairman.
In 1955, Glynn was made a canon of Blackburn Cathedral, a post he held until his death in 1967. He is buried in Toxteth Park Cemetery with his parents and his brother Thomas.
