Lives of the First World War

Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, GCSI, GCIE, PC, KStJ (21 November 1870 – 9 March 1947) was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician. Jackson was born in Leeds, his father was William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton. During Stanley's time at Harrow School his fag was Winston Churchill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1889. Jackson played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire and England. Jackson was a lieutenant in the Harrow Volunteers when he was on 16 January 1900 appointed captain in 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the King′s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).He served with the regiment in the Second Boer War, and transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914. Jackson died in London of complications following a road accident