Jackson

the instruction of Dr. James Nares, He was
appointed a surplice boy at the Chapel Royal in
London, and he was one of the tenor singers at
the grand Commemoration of Handel in 1784*
In 1791 he received from St. Andrew's College
a diploma as Doctor of Music (Parser, post)
and he always insisted upon using that title. He
came to Norfolk, Va., in 1796, resided for a
while in Elizabeth, N. J., and then removed to
New York City. In all of these places he found
employment as a teacher and organist, and by
1804 he was directing the music in Saint
George's Chapel in the growing metropolis. As
early as 1812 he had moved on to Boston, was
organist in the Brattle Street Church of that
city, and with the cooperation of Gottlieb Graup-
ner and Monsieur Mallet began a series of ora-
torios, some of which were repeated in neighbor-
ing towns. Dr. William Bentley of Salem states
in his Diary (vol. IV, 1914, p. 135) that on Dec.
i, 1812, at an Oratorio of Sacred Music, "the
celebrated Dr. Jackson, an Englishman, per-
formed on the organ with great power and pure
touch . . . Dr. Jackson's voluntaries were be-
yond anything I had heard/' During the later
years of the war with Great Britain he withdrew
to Northampton, but at the conclusion of peace
returned to Boston and served successfully as
organist at King's Chapel, Trinity, and Saint
Paul's. Before leaving England he had married
in London the eldest daughter of D*-. Samuel
Rogers, and eleven children were born to them.
Jackson taught in the best families. In his
church work he endeavored to introduce the
English method of chanting. He once lent his
name to a plan of character notes. Intensely
impulsive and irritable in temper, he several
times resigned his positions on account of ad-
verse criticism. Of his talents and abilities
John R. Parker (post, p. 130) writes in a sketch
printed in Boston within two years of the mu-
sician's death: "His voluntaries were elaborate
and replete with chromatic harmonies, embrac-
ing the most scientific and classic modulations.
His interludes to psalmody were particularly ap-
propriate to the sentiments expressed in the
subject. . . . His compositions as a harmonist,
are of high rank, they possess a profound knowl-
edge of the science, and an originality of modu-
lation wherein are displayed a comprehensive
view of effects, the result only of deep and la-
borious study."

Jackson's musical writings were numerous.
First Principles; or a Treatise en Practical
Thorough Bass was published in London in
*795, His later books were printed after his
coming to America: David's Psalms (1804);

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A Choice Collection of Chants (1816); The
Choral Companion (1817); and Watts' Divine
Hymns Set to Music. He also edited the har-
mony of Wainwright's Set of Chants (1819),
and contributed several of his own to this col-
lection. Perhaps his last work for music was to
examine the compilation made by Lowell Mason
[tf.z'.], who was trying to secure its publication
in Boston. This manuscript was favorably rec-
ommended and the first edition appeared in 1822
as the Boston Handel and Haydn Society's Col-
lection of Church Music, dedicated to Dr. George
K. Jackson.

[See J. R. Parker, Musical Biog. (1825); C. C. Per-
kins and J. S. Dwight, Hist, of the Handel and Haydn
Soc. (1883-93) ; Justin Winsor, The Memorial Hist, of
Boston (4 vols., 1881-83) J vital and probate records of
Boston; F. J. Metcalf, Am. Writers and Compilers of
Sacred Music (1925). In the library of the Harvard
Musical Asso., Boston, there is a bound volume of Jack-
son's sheet music, comprising 285 pages, and containing
those printed in London, as well as many published in
this country.] F.J.M.

JACKSON, GEORGE THOMAS (Dec. 19,
i852-Jan. 3, 1916), dermatologist, the son of
George T. and Letitia Jane Aiken (Macauley)
Jackson, was born and died in New York City.
His only brother, Rev. Samuel M. Jackson [q.vJ],
was a well-known writer on church history.
George Jackson's early education was in a pri-
vate school. After finishing the freshman year in
the College of the City of New York, he spent
some time in business. Entering the College of
Physicians and Surgeons (ColumbiaUniversity),
he graduated in 1878, and then studied for two
years in Berlin, Vienna, and Strassburg.

In 1881 he began medical practice in New
York City and during his earlier years served
as assistant surgeon at the New York Skin and
Cancer Hospital, visiting physician at Randall's
Island Hospital, consulting dermatologist at the
New York Infirmary for Women and Children,
and consulting dermatologist at the Presbyterian
Hospital. From 1890 to 1899 he was professor of
dermatology in the Woman's Medical College of
the New York Infirmary. He was the chief of
clinic in the dermatological department of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons for twenty-five
years, and later became professor of dermatology
in that institution (1908-15). From 1895 to
1900 he was also professor of dermatology at the
University of Vermont His prominence in his
special field is evinced by the fact that he was
president of the New York Dermatological So-
ciety (1889-90), of the American Dermatologi-
cal Association (1901-02), and treasurer of the
International Dermatological Congress held in
New York in 1907. He wrote many articles on
the hair and on various skin diseases for the

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