Notes for: Henry Jackson
From Roger Leakey: He worked in the Indian Forest Service, publishing in "The Indian Forester".
1898 Conservator of Forests to the United Provinces in India, posted in Dehra Dun and Nainital.
1901 Deputy Director, Imperial Forestry School, Dehra Dun (appointed 12 Dec 1901) while on leave from Burma.
1913 Invalided out of India with malaria and became Reader in Forestry at Cambridge University, England, affiliated to Corpus Christi College.
Correspondence with Corpus Christi: . . . a reference to Henry Jackson in the Corpus Christi Chapter Book Papers. These contain the minutes of the Governing Body. Under 5 March 1915, there is an entry (no. 8) which reads as follows: 8. Also that Mr Henry Jackson, University Reader in Forestry, be charged on his admission as a member of the college an admission fee of £2 and five shillings a quarter for college dues.
The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge. Supplement, 1911-20/ (CUP: Cambridge, 1922) p.17, has the following entry under Forestry Committee: "Indian Forestry: 1914-17 Henry Jackson MA 1915; /post/ Corpus".
Additionally, his work is referred to in the 7th Annual Report of the Forestry Committee, 3 November 1914, thus:
"Mr H. Jackson gave courses on Indian Trees and Silviculture, Indian Forest Management and Indian Forest Law" (source: UA CUR 108.2, item 91)