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CYRIL JACKSON (1746-1819)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 110 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYRIL See also:JACKSON (1746-1819)  , See also:dean of See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, was See also:born in See also:Yorkshire, and educated at See also:Westminster and Oxford . In 1771 he was chosen to be sub-See also:preceptor to the His See also:chief See also:work was a See also:series of commentaries on the Apostles' two eldest sons of See also:George III., but in 1776 he was dismissed, probably through some See also:household intrigues . He then took orders, and was appointed in 1779 to the preachership at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn and to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford . In 1783 he was elected dean of Christ Church . His devotion to the See also:college led him to decline the bishopric of Oxford in 1799 and the primacy of See also:Ireland in 'Soo . He took a leading See also:part in framing the See also:statute which, in 18o2, launched the See also:system of public See also:examinations at Oxford, but otherwise he was not prominent in university affairs . On his resignation in 1809 he settled at Felpham, in See also:Sussex, where he remained till his See also:death .

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