Henry Jackson

This would not have been the original position of the window. The window was gifted by Henry in 1857 (the time of the first major restoration) and the transepts were not built until the second restoration of 1885. There is a photograph in the church of the chancel before the second restoration which shows windows of a similar shape and design behind the altar. This window was probably one of the windows to the left or the right of the central window when it was first installed in 1857.

See also the brass plaque (No. 12) in the Lady Chapel commemorating both Henry and his wife.

Henry Jackson

Henry was born to George Jackson and Mary Duffield and baptised at Malton on July 15th 1811. No further information on his life was uncovered before his marriage to Rosa Howland Coane in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on May 8th 1841. An article in the Lincolnshire Chronicle gives her father as Anthony Coane and her mother as Harriet Linom.

They had their first child, Rosa, at Old Malton in 1842. A birth notice in the York Herald reports that they were living at Pasture Cottage, Malton at the birth of their first son Arthur Howland Jackson in July 1845.

At the 1851 census Henry was described as Attorney Solicitor and Clerk to the county court of Yorkshire at New Malton. He was living with his wife Rosa and their six children (three sons and three daughters) with ages ranging from 0 to 9, and three servants. In March 1852, solicitor Henry Jackson is reported to have given an amusing talk on the life and writings of Thomas Hood at the Malton Literary Institute.

According to White’s Directory (1858) his work place was on Chancery Lane, Malton. Offices on this lane are thought to have inspired Charles Dickens’ description of Scrooge’s office in A Christmas Carol.

Henry was Church Warden during the church restoration of 1857–58 and contributed £7 10s (approx. equivalent to £800) to the restoration fund. (The other Church Warden at the time was Alfred Simpson who is also commemorated in a window in the church.)

In the 1861 census Henry is described as Solicitor Registrar of the County Court and is living in Old Malton with eight children with ages ranging from 5 to 19 and three servants. His wife was in Scarborough visiting her mother and stepfather. In 1862 Lord Fitzwilliam appointed him to the office of Borough Bailiff of Malton, a prestigious position which he held until his death.

Henry Jackson died at Fern Hill, The Brows, Malton in September 1864 (aged 53) and is buried in the Old Malton churchyard.