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	On 14 June 1879, [[William Fitzherbert (New Zealand politician)\|William Fitzherbert]] resigned his membership of the House of Representatives, where he represented the [[Hutt (New Zealand electorate)\|Hutt electorate]], to take up the [[List of speakers of the New Zealand Legislative Council\|speakership of the New Zealand Legislative Council]].<ref>{{Cite news \|date=14 June 1879 \|title=Resignation of Sir William Fitzherbert for the Hutt \|page=15 \|work=New Zealand Mail \|issue=383 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18790614.2.45 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> The resulting [[1879 Hutt by-election\|2 July 1879 by-election]] was contested by [[Thomas Mason (New Zealand politician)\|Thomas Mason]] and Jackson, with ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]]'' pointing out that the candidates had near-identical political views.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=25 June 1879 \|title=Evening Post \|volume=XVII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=545 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790625.2.6 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> Jackson won the by-election by a large margin.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=3 July 1879 \|title=The Hutt election \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=3 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790703.2.34.7 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref>		On 14 June 1879, [[William Fitzherbert (New Zealand politician)\|William Fitzherbert]] resigned his membership of the House of Representatives, where he represented the [[Hutt (New Zealand electorate)\|Hutt electorate]], to take up the [[List of speakers of the New Zealand Legislative Council\|speakership of the New Zealand Legislative Council]].<ref>{{Cite news \|date=14 June 1879 \|title=Resignation of Sir William Fitzherbert for the Hutt \|page=15 \|work=New Zealand Mail \|issue=383 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18790614.2.45 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> The resulting [[1879 Hutt by-election\|2 July 1879 by-election]] was contested by [[Thomas Mason (New Zealand politician)\|Thomas Mason]] and Jackson, with ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]]'' pointing out that the candidates had near-identical political views.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=25 June 1879 \|title=Evening Post \|volume=XVII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=545 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790625.2.6 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> Jackson won the by-election by a large margin.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=3 July 1879 \|title=The Hutt election \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=3 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790703.2.34.7 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref>

	Jackson represented the Hutt electorate from this by-election to the [[1879 New Zealand general election\|1879 general election]]. His period of service was 2 July to 15 August; he was a member of the House of Representatives for 44 days, the shortest period of any New Zealand MP.<ref name="Wilson">{{Cite book \|last=Wilson \|first=James Oakley \|title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 \|publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer \|year=1985 \|edition=4th \|location=Wellington \|page=208 \|oclc=154283103 \|origyear=First ed. published 1913}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Members of Parliament – Longest, shortest, oldest, youngest \|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/mps-and-parliaments-1854-onwards/members-of-parliament-longest-shortest-oldest-youngest/ \|access-date=11 August 2022 \|publisher=[[New Zealand Parliament]]}}</ref> Jackson was sworn in on 11 July 1879 when the fourth session of the [[6th New Zealand Parliament\|sixth parliament]] started.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=12 July 1879 \|title=The opening of parliament \|page=3 \|work=[[Otago Daily Times]] \|issue=5428 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18790712.2.14 \|access-date=30 April ~~2022~~}}</ref> The sixth parliament was dissolved on 11 August 1879.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Scholefield \|first=Guy \|title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 \|publisher=Govt. Printer \|year=1950 \|edition=3rd \|location=Wellington \|page=68 \|author-link=Guy Scholefield \|orig-year=First ed. published 1913}}</ref>		Jackson represented the Hutt electorate from this by-election to the [[1879 New Zealand general election\|1879 general election]]. His period of service was 2 July to 15 August; he was a member of the House of Representatives for 44 days, the shortest period of any New Zealand MP.<ref name="Wilson">{{Cite book \|last=Wilson \|first=James Oakley \|title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 \|publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer \|year=1985 \|edition=4th \|location=Wellington \|page=208 \|oclc=154283103 \|origyear=First ed. published 1913}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Members of Parliament – Longest, shortest, oldest, youngest \|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/mps-and-parliaments-1854-onwards/members-of-parliament-longest-shortest-oldest-youngest/ \|access-date=11 August 2022 \|publisher=[[New Zealand Parliament]]}}</ref> Jackson was sworn in on 11 July 1879 when the fourth session of the [[6th New Zealand Parliament\|sixth parliament]] started.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=12 July 1879 \|title=The opening of parliament \|page=3 \|work=[[Otago Daily Times]] \|issue=5428 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18790712.2.14 \|access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> The sixth parliament was dissolved on 11 August 1879.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Scholefield \|first=Guy \|title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 \|publisher=Govt. Printer \|year=1950 \|edition=3rd \|location=Wellington \|page=68 \|author-link=Guy Scholefield \|orig-year=First ed. published 1913}}</ref>

	On 2 September, Jackson and Mason put their candidacies forward for the 1879 general election.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=4 September 1879 \|title=The Hutt nomination \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=57 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790904.2.13 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the election a week later, which had a slightly higher turnout, Mason unexpectedly won.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=10 September 1879 \|title=The Hutt election \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=62 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790910.2.23 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the {{NZ election link\|1881}} in the Hutt electorate, Jackson was one of four candidates but the incumbent retained the seat.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=30 December 1881 \|title=The general elections \|volume=XXXVII \|page=6 \|work=New Zealand Times \|issue=6462 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18811230.2.46 \|access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>		On 2 September, Jackson and Mason put their candidacies forward for the 1879 general election.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=4 September 1879 \|title=The Hutt nomination \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=57 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790904.2.13 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the election a week later, which had a slightly higher turnout, Mason unexpectedly won.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=10 September 1879 \|title=The Hutt election \|volume=XVIII \|page=2 \|work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)\|The Evening Post]] \|issue=62 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790910.2.23 \|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the {{NZ election link\|1881}} in the Hutt electorate, Jackson was one of four candidates but the incumbent retained the seat.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=30 December 1881 \|title=The general elections \|volume=XXXVII \|page=6 \|work=New Zealand Times \|issue=6462 \|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18811230.2.46 \|access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>

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'''Henry Jackson''' (1830 – 29 October 1906) was a New Zealand politician who served as a [[member of parliament|member of the House of Representatives]] (M.H.R.) in the [[Wellington]] region. An officer of the [[Royal Indian Navy]] and naval surveyor, he was in New Zealand on [[furlough|leave of duty]] when control of the Indian Navy changed from the [[East India Company]] to the British government in India, following the 1857 [[Indian Mutiny]]. He worked as a surveyor and was dismissed as chief surveyor of Wellington District in 1879. He successfully stood in a parliamentary by-election but was in the House of Representatives for only one month before the house was [[prorogation#New Zealand|prorogued]], and lost his position in the subsequent general election.

==Early life and naval career==
Jackson was born in England in 1830.<ref name="Scholefield bio" /> His parents were John Jackson and Honoria Anna Maria Jackson, who both died at [[Hutt Valley]] within a week of one another in May and June 1869.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 May 1869 |title=Deaths |volume=XXIV |page=2 |work=[[The Wellington Independent]] |issue=2841 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WI18690527.2.7 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=3 June 1869 |title=Death |volume=V |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=96 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18690603.2.4 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> His grandfather was [[Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet]], who was chairman of the board of the [[Company rule in India|East India Company]].<ref name="interesting career">{{Cite news |date=10 November 1906 |title=An interesting career |volume=XXIX |page=7 |work=[[Wairarapa Age]] |issue=8283 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19061110.2.25 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> He received his education at [[York College (York)|York Mechanics' Institute]]. Aged 15, he joined the [[Royal Indian Navy]] and during his 17 years of service, he advanced from [[midshipman]] to [[Lieutenant (navy)|lieutenant]].<ref name="Scholefield bio">{{Cite book |url=https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf |title=A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L |publisher=[[Department of Internal Affairs]] |year=1940 |editor-last=Scholefield |editor-first=Guy |editor-link=Guy Scholefield |volume=I |location=Wellington |page=432}}</ref> During his time in the navy, he trained as a surveyor. When he was in charge of the survey ship ''Krishna'', one of his naval surveys was that of the Cocos channel, the water between [[Myanmar|Burma]] to the north and the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] to the south. He was part of the group of surveyors under [[Fenwick Williams]] that defined the boundary between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Qajar Iran|Persia]]. As part of that survey, he rode from the [[Persian Gulf]] to [[Mount Ararat]] and from there to [[Trabzon]] (then known as Trebizond) on the [[Black Sea]]. For the next three years, he worked at [[Constantinople]] to document that work. He travelled extensively in Persia, [[Armenia]], and India. Apart from his native English, he spoke French, Arabic, Persian, and Hindi.<ref name="Scholefield bio" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 March 1903 |title=A Hutt veteran |volume=XXVII |page=2 |work=Wairarapa Daily Times |issue=7418 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19030324.2.3 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>

==New Zealand career==
[[File:Henry Jackson's house, Blackbridge, in Lower Hutt.jpg|thumb|left|Jackson's house, Blackbridge, in Lower Hutt]]
Jackson was in New Zealand on a two-year [[furlough]] from 1862 to visit his parents. During that time, the Indian Navy was disestablished.<ref name="interesting career" /> He was appointed to the New Zealand Survey Department in September 1862, not long after he arrived in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 December 1862 |title=District surveyor |volume=XVII |page=5 |work=Wellington Independent |issue=1809 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WI18621227.2.19.2 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> After three years as a district surveyor, he became chief surveyor of [[Wellington Province]].<ref name="Scholefield bio" /> After the abolition of the provincial system, Jackson was chief surveyor of the Wellington District until he was dismissed in March 1879 via a notice in the ''[[New Zealand Gazette|Gazette]]''. In October 1880 following a petition to parliament, the dismissal was cancelled by the acting governor-general and converted into a resignation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 December 1879 |title=The case of Mr Henry Jackson |volume=XVIII |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=140 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18791211.2.9 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 October 1880 |title=The vital statistics |volume=XX |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=242 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18801015.2.16 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref>

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On 14 June 1879, [[William Fitzherbert (New Zealand politician)|William Fitzherbert]] resigned his membership of the House of Representatives, where he represented the [[Hutt (New Zealand electorate)|Hutt electorate]], to take up the [[List of speakers of the New Zealand Legislative Council|speakership of the New Zealand Legislative Council]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 June 1879 |title=Resignation of Sir William Fitzherbert for the Hutt |page=15 |work=New Zealand Mail |issue=383 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18790614.2.45 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> The resulting [[1879 Hutt by-election|2 July 1879 by-election]] was contested by [[Thomas Mason (New Zealand politician)|Thomas Mason]] and Jackson, with ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]]'' pointing out that the candidates had near-identical political views.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 June 1879 |title=Evening Post |volume=XVII |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=545 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790625.2.6 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> Jackson won the by-election by a large margin.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 July 1879 |title=The Hutt election |volume=XVIII |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790703.2.34.7 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref>

Jackson represented the Hutt electorate from this by-election to the [[1879 New Zealand general election|1879 general election]]. His period of service was 2 July to 15 August; he was a member of the House of Representatives for 44 days, the shortest period of any New Zealand MP.<ref name="Wilson">{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=James Oakley |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |year=1985 |edition=4th |location=Wellington |page=208 |oclc=154283103 |origyear=First ed. published 1913}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Members of Parliament – Longest, shortest, oldest, youngest |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/mps-and-parliaments-1854-onwards/members-of-parliament-longest-shortest-oldest-youngest/ |access-date=11 August 2022 |publisher=[[New Zealand Parliament]]}}</ref> Jackson was sworn in on 11 July 1879 when the fourth session of the [[6th New Zealand Parliament|sixth parliament]] started.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 July 1879 |title=The opening of parliament |page=3 |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |issue=5428 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18790712.2.14 |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref> The sixth parliament was dissolved on 11 August 1879.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scholefield |first=Guy |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |publisher=Govt. Printer |year=1950 |edition=3rd |location=Wellington |page=68 |author-link=Guy Scholefield |orig-year=First ed. published 1913}}</ref>

On 2 September, Jackson and Mason put their candidacies forward for the 1879 general election.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 September 1879 |title=The Hutt nomination |volume=XVIII |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=57 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790904.2.13 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the election a week later, which had a slightly higher turnout, Mason unexpectedly won.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 September 1879 |title=The Hutt election |volume=XVIII |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=62 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18790910.2.23 |access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref> At the {{NZ election link|1881}} in the Hutt electorate, Jackson was one of four candidates but the incumbent retained the seat.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 December 1881 |title=The general elections |volume=XXXVII |page=6 |work=New Zealand Times |issue=6462 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18811230.2.46 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>

In April 1886, Jackson was appointed judge of the Assessment Court (a court that set land values for rating purposes). The area covered included the town districts of [[Johnsonville, New Zealand|Johnsonville]], [[Kaiwharawhara|Kaiwarra]], Lower Hutt, and [[Petone]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 April 1886 |title=Untitled |volume=XLVI |page=2 |work=New Zealand Times |issue=7770 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18860430.2.8?end_date=01-12-1907 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> He also served as a justice of the peace for about 30 years, and was one of the first members of the [[Wellington College, Wellington|Wellington College]] board of governors.<ref name="interesting career" />

==Family==
Jackson's eldest daughter, Edith Emily, married the third son of [[Jabez Waterhouse]], Rowland Skipsey, at St James' Church in Lower Hutt in February 1883.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 February 1883 |title=Marriages |volume=XL |page=2 |work=New Zealand Times |issue=6816 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18830224.2.8 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> His eldest son, Reginald Jackson, became a lawyer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 1887 |title=The proposed amendment of the Municipal Act |volume=XXXIV |page=2 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=132 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18871202.2.11 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>

Jackson died at his home in Lower Hutt from a cold on 29 October 1906. He was survived by his wife, six sons, and two daughters.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 October 1906 |title=Personal matters |volume=LXXII |page=7 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |issue=103 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19061029.2.42 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> He was buried at the St James churchyard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Untitled |url=http://iportal.huttcity.govt.nz/Record?Query=title:Henry%20Jackson%20AND%20title:Henry%20Jackson%20and%20(type:2081)&Tab=27&Uri=3505528&Page=1 |access-date=11 August 2022 |publisher=[[Hutt City]]}}</ref> His wife died in November 1914.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 November 1914 |title=Personal items |volume=8 |page=5 |work=[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]] |issue=2308 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19141116.2.22 |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>

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