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

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