Keith Alexander Jackson

Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, 2nd Baronet (born January 8, 1798 in London , † August 21, 1843 in Schlierbach (Heidelberg) ) was a British officer. He was a participant in the First Anglo-Afghan War . In his book "Views in Affghaunistaun, & c. & c. & c. From sketches taken during the campaign of the army of the Indus ”(approx. 1840) he described several cities in Afghanistan .

Life

Jackson was the eldest son of Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet, a businessman and politician and Charlotte, the daughter of General Gorham (Gorham Point, Nova Scotia ). He joined the fourth light dragoons on December 2, 1819, became a lieutenant on December 19, 1822, and a captain on December 30, 1830. He took part in several campaigns in India and in the Battle of Ghazni . He was wing adjutant of Mountstuart Elphinstone in Bombay , in the same capacity and as a translator from Persian for John Macdonald Kinneir . For his services he received the Order of the Sun and Lion from the Shah of Persia . When his father died on May 17, 1820, he inherited his title of baronet , of Arlsey in the County of Bedford .

He married Amelia on February 4, 1834, in St George's, Hanover Square, London, the only daughter of George Waddell, Commissary-gen. Bombay Army and East India Company's civil service. The couple had six children: Sir Mountstuart Goodriche Jackson, (1836-1857), Amelia Georgiana Jackson (1837-1858), Anna Madeline Hungerford Jackson (1838-1924), Julia Honoria Catherine Jackson (1839-1926), Sir Keith George Jackson (1842-1916) and Monimia Emily Jackson (1844-1923). Mountstuart Goodriche and Amelia Georgiana Jackson were killed in the Indian uprising of 1857 during the siege of Lucknow .

He died on August 21, 1843 in Schlierbach, today a district of Heidelberg , as a result of an accident in Kabul . He was buried in the St. Anna churchyard in Heidelberg. His tombstone is in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery, which was opened in 1844 .

The epitaph reads:

Tombstone Keith Alexander Jackson (Bergfriedhof Heidelberg)

Sacred to the Memory
of
Keith Alexander Jackson
Baronet
Captain in Her Majestys 4th Light Dragoons
Whilst serving in the Army of the Indus
under the Command
of
Lieutt-General Sir John Keane KCB
He was present at the Capture
of
Ghizni and Caubul
in
Affgaunistaun
Born in London 8th January 1798
[The last lines are illegible]

estate

His estate (letters, travelogues, private notes) is in the Royal Geographical Society in London .

Jackson's book “Views in Affghaunistaun, & c. & c. & c. from sketches taken during the campaign of the army of the Indus “is a description of the First Anglo-Afghan War . It contains numerous illustrations and explanations on the history of Afghanistan and can therefore still be read today as an interesting source.

literature

• Haythornthwaite, Philip J .: The Colonial Wars Source Book . ISBN 9781854094360
• Macrory, Patrick: Retreat from Kabul, The catastrophic british defeat in Afghanistan, 1842 , 2002 ISBN 978-1-59921-177-0

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernard Burke: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (1865), p. 614
2. ^ E. Cave: The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 174 (1843)
3. ^ Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany 1834
4. ^ Jesse Montgomery Seaver: Jackson family records. American historical-genealogical society, 1929 and John Debrett, William Courthope: Debrett's Baronetage of England: with alphabetical lists of such baronetcies (7th edition 1835)
5. ^ Bernard Burke: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (1865), p. 614
6. ↑ Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages. Publication series of the city of Heidelberg, special publication 18, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , page 18, Figure 2.
7. ↑ Bavarian State Library Munich (digitized version): http://gateway-bayern.de/BV009729394