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Authorised form of nameJackson; Sir; Henry Bradwardine (1855 - 1929); naval officer and developer of wireless telegraphy
Dates1855 - 1929
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBarnsley, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth21 January 1855
Place of deathSalterns, on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England
Date of death14/12/1929
Dates and placesBurial: Hayling Island parish churchyard, England.
Occupationnaval officer and developer of wireless telegraphy
Research fieldTelegraphy
ActivityEducation:
Chester and Stubbington House, Fareham, England.
Career:
Entered the navy (1868); sub-lieutenant (1874); lieutenant specialising in navigation (1877); partook in the Anglo-Zulu War (1879); commander (1890); appointed to command the Defiance (1895); appointed naval attaché in Paris (1897); assistant director of torpedoes at the Admiralty (1902); third sea lord and controller of the navy (1905); aide-de-camp to Edward VII (1905-1906); rear-admiral (1906); Command of 3rd cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean (1908-1910); vice-admiral (1911); chief of the war staff (1913); Admiral (1914); admiral of the fleet (1919); chairman of the Radio Research Board (1920); retired from the navy (1924).
Honours:
KCVO 1906; KCB 1910; GCB 1916
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1901
Age at election46
ProposerWillaim Henry Preece
George Joachim Goschen
Arthur Mason Worthington
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Samuel Hawksley Burbury
Ettrick William Creak
William Hollingsworth White
Arnold William Reinold
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1926
RelationshipsParents: Henry Jackson, a farmer in nearby Cudworth, and Jane, the daughter of Charles Tee of Barnsley.
Spouse: Alice Mary Florence, eldest daughter of Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS, barrister and mathematician.
General contextProposed using electromagnetic waves to detect torpedo boats.
Pioneer of ship-to-ship wireless technology.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Grace's Guide
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1930 vol 127 pp vi-ix, plate, signed by F E S
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/88453544
Royal Society codeNA1349
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MS/525/6/1/5Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk5 January 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/1Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Dugald Clerk 4 December 1914
MS/525/5/2/7Letter from Admiral Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Dugald Clerk22 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/21Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk5 January 1915
MS/525/6/3/5Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Dugald Clerk5 December 1914
MS/525/6/3/3Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Dugald Clerk3 December 1914
MS/525/6/2/1Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, to Dugald Clerk 2 December 1914
MS/525/6/3/6Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Dugald Clerk26 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/16Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk31 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/6Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to the Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/2Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk 1 4 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/2/20'Note on the use & adjustment of a creeping and oscillating mine', by Henry Bradwardine Jackson8 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/9Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk18 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/3'Effect of current on the depth and angle of mooring rope of a spherical mine' by Henry Bradwardine Jackson26 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/12Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk23 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/11'Note on the practical use of creeping mines' by Henry Bradwardine Jackson20 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/10Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk21 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/2/17Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to [Dugald] Clerk4 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/19Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk8 March 1915
CMB/36/4Copy, letter from R H Brade of the War Office, Whitehall, to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, at the Royal Society21 November 1914
MS/525/7/2/12Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson to Professor [Arthur] Schuster10 February 1915
MS/525/7/2/21Letter from Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Admiralty, to Dugald Clerk18 February 1915
NLB/25/47Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Henry Bradwardine Jackson, Fellow of the Royal Society30 July 1902
NLB/37/255Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons22 February 1908
NLB/32/349Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane, W.C.24 February 1906
NLB/32/319Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Longmans, Green and Company, 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.C.19 February 1906
NLB/42/765Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 October 1910
NLB/63/431Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, FRS13 October 1922
NLB/64/12Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS19 January 1923
NLB/64/114Copy letter from Charles Scott Sherrington, President of the Royal Society; to Sir Herbert [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS2 February 1923
NLB/59/423Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Henry Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS1 October 1920
NLB/59/365Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS24 September 1920
IM/002384Jackson, Sir Henry Bradwardine1922
NLB/57/170Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent1 August 1919
NLB/57/593Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Sir Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS, KBE], the National Physical Laboratory12 December 1919
NLB/67/292Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, GCB, FRS, Admiral of the Fleet1 December 1924
NLB/62/141Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS9 December 1921
NLB/57/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS, GCBE, ECVO13 December 1919
NLB/62/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee, Air Ministry, Kingsway, W.C.2.13 December 1921
NLB/62/288Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS19 January 1922
NLB/64/52Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee; Air Ministry, Kingsway23 January 1923
NLB/70/51Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry Jackson, GCB, KCVO; Admiral of the Fleet, 37 Catherine Street, S.W.1.10 December 1926
NLB/69/256Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, FRS16 February 1926
NLB/67/314Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, GCB, FRS, Admiral of the Fleet4 December 1924
NLB/69/868Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, G.C.B, K.C.V.O., FRS4 November 1926
NLB/69/189Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, FRS25 January 1926
NLB/69/728Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Glazebrook, K.C.B, FRS15 September 1926
NLB/69/283Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M. FRS22 February 1926
NLB/68/951Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, GCB, FRS7 December 1925
NLB/70/416Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry [Bradwardine] Jackson, GCB, FRS25 March 1927
NLB/68/959Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, GCB, FRS8 December 1925
NLB/71/264Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Edward Victor] Appleton, FRS2 March 1928
EC/1901/06Jackson, Sir Henry Bradwardine: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/16/317Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'Further observations on the germination of the seeds of the castor oil plant (ricinus communis)' by Joseph Reynolds Green and Henry Bradwardine Jackson30 May 1905
RR/25/25Referee's report by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, on a paper 'Experiments demonstrating an electrical effect in vibrating metals' by Henry Bradwardine Jackson and G B Bryan25 December 1918
NLB/57/701Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society [?]; to Admiral Sir Henry B [Braderwine] Jackson, FRS, GCB20 January 1920
NLB/70/982Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Glazebrook, KCB, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society1 December 1927
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/17/163Referee's report by Henry Bradwardine Jackson, on a paper 'Exterior ballistics. (No. 2.)' by George Forbes14 November 1907
MC/24/4Letter from [Henry Bradwardine] Jackson, H. M. S. Bacchante, Third Cruiser Squadron, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 March 1909
MC/24Volume 24 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1909
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