Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley

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Background and education

Born in Burnley, he was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie Hiley.[1]Template:Rp Jackson was educated at Rosegrove Primary School and the Burnley Grammar School until 1922 and read electrical engineering at the University of Manchester until 1925.[5] He obtained a Bachelor of Science first class, having previously won three different scholarships.[1]Template:Rp Jackson studied then under Robert Beattie, graduating with a Master of Science in 1926.

Jackson was awarded a number of honorary degrees. Doctor of Science degrees were awarded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, by the University of Bristol[6] and by City University London.[7]

He was made an honorary Doctor of Engineering by the University of Sheffield and received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Aberdeen[6] as well as from the University of Leeds in 1967.[8] He was granted an honorary fellowship by the City and Guilds of London Institute[6] and by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1968.[9] That same year, the University of Dundee conferred upon him another honorary degree[10] and he was elected a fellow by the Royal College of Art.[11]

In 1961, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa, and on 21 November 1963 delivered the Tenth Fawley Foundation Lecture.[12]

Vocational career

After his education, Jackson became lecturer in electrical engineering first at the Bradford Technical College (now the University of Bradford) until 1929.[5] In the following year he worked as apprentice for the electrical company Metropolitan-Vickers.[1]Template:Rp Jackson lectured at the UMIST from 1930 and subsequently at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1933.[1]Template:Rp

He graduated as Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and as Doctor of Science at Manchester in 1936.[1]Template:Rp Afterwards he became again employed at Vickers working as research engineer for the next two years and then obtained a professorship in electrotechnics at his former university.[1]Template:Rp In 1946, he moved to Imperial College London as professor for electrical engineering.[1]Template:Rp Jackson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953[1][13] and joined again Vickers as director of its research and education department, a post he held until 1961.[5]

Jackson was knighted in 1958.[14] He served as president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in the following two years until 1960 and after another year became president of the Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers.[6] For four years Jackson chaired the governing body of the Royal Technical Institute, Salford (now the University of Salford) until 1962.[6] He returned to the Imperial College in 1961, heading its Department of Electrical Engineering until his death in 1970;[2]Template:Rp for the last three years he was the College's pro-rector.[2]Template:Rp In 1962 he entered the South Eastern Electricity Board.[6] He gave the 1967 presidential address (Science, Technology and Society) to the British Association meeting in Leeds.[15] He published a number of books and journal articles on his research.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Political career

In 1944 Jackson was appointed to the Radio Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in which he sat for four years; he served another term from 1950.[6] He was a member of the Central Advisory Council to the Ministry of Education from 1945 and of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Ministry of Supply from 1947.[6] A year later Jackson was admitted to BBC's Engineering Advisory Committee and in 1951 to the Committee of Selection to the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships.[6]

He became a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service in 1953.[6] Two years later in 1955 Jackson joined the University Grants Committee, whose membership he held for a decade.[1]Template:Rp In the same year he sat in the Ministry of Education's Council of Technological Awards.[6] Jackson was nominated a chairman of the Ministry's Committee on Supply and Training of Technical Teachers in 1956.[6] He chaired the FBI Research Committee of 1958 and became a member of the Committee on Management of Research, run by the Lord President of the Council.[6]

In September 1961, he was invited to the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and to the Scientific Manpower Committee.[6] Jackson was chosen president of the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education in 1962[1]Template:Rp and entered the Advisory Council for Technical Education for Overseas Countries.[6] He received a life peerage with the title Baron Jackson of Burnley, of Burnley, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 19 January 1967.[25]

Awards and honours

Jackson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953, his nomination reads.Template:Centred pull quote

Personal life

In 1938 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Oliphant Boswall, a lecturer in mechanical engineering; they had two daughters.[1]Template:Rp

One of Jackson's closest friends was the physicist John F. Allen.[1]Template:Rp In his last years he supported the development of the Indian Institutes of Technology.[1]Template:Rp

References

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  16. ↑ High Frequency Transmission Lines, etc; (1945)
  17. ↑ Advanced Courses in Electrical Engineering; (1950)
  18. ↑ The Insulation of Electrical Equipment; (1954)
  19. ↑ Partnership Between Science and Electrical Engineering; (1962)
  20. ↑ Scientific, Technological and Technical Manpower; (1963)
  21. ↑ A Review of the Scope and Problems of Scientific and Technological Manpower Policy; (1965)
  22. ↑ Macdonald Trends and Developments in Engineering Series General; ed. (1965)
  23. ↑ Technology and the Developing Countries; (1966)
  24. ↑ Manpower for Engineering and Technology; (1970)
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