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Lot Essay
Dr. John Jackson, Bishop of London (1811-1885), was educated at Reading School and Pembroke College, Oxford. Ordained Deacon in 1835, Jackson held a number of livings in London and wrote his most popular publication The Sinfulness of Little Sins in 1849. He went on to be rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, Chaplain to Queen Victoria (1847) and Boyle lecturer in 1853. Franklin became Bishop of Lincoln the same year and, in 1868, Disraeli appointed him Bishop of London where he fought against ritualism. He married and had ten daughters and one son. He died at Fulham Palace in 1885.
The Bishop of London is a prelate against whom no unkind word was ever spoken [and] is a remarkable example of worldly success which is often attained by unworldly men.... Dr. Jackson has the good sense and the necessary tact to keep out of hot water in the See of London, there is reasonable ground for hope that he will be as successful hereafter, as he has been hitherto, in avoiding the snares of Satan.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 69, 1870.
The Bishop of London is a prelate against whom no unkind word was ever spoken [and] is a remarkable example of worldly success which is often attained by unworldly men.... Dr. Jackson has the good sense and the necessary tact to keep out of hot water in the See of London, there is reasonable ground for hope that he will be as successful hereafter, as he has been hitherto, in avoiding the snares of Satan.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 69, 1870.