Joseph Jackson Lister

Joseph Jackson Lister, FRS (11 January 1786 – 24 October 1869) was an amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of Joseph Lister.

Ancestry

In 1705, Thomas Lister, a farmer and maltster, of Bingley, Yorkshire, England, married Hannah, the daughter of a Yeoman. They joined the Society of Friends, becoming Quakers, as were most of their descendants. They had a son, Joseph, who left Yorkshire in about 1720 to become a tobacconist in Aldersgate Street, London.

Joseph’s youngest son, christened John, was born in 1737. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker, Isaac Rogers in 1752, and followed that trade on his own account in Bell Alley, Lombard Street from 1759 to 1766. He then took over his father’s tobacco business, but gave it up in 1769 in favour of his father-in-law Stephen Jackson’s business as a wine-merchant in Lothbury.

John Lister was made a freeman of the Bakers’ company in 1760. He married Mary in 1764, and had two daughters within three years of his marriage, then after an interval of nineteen years, in 1786, when he was 49, his wife gave birth to their only son, Joseph Jackson Lister.

Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist)

Joseph Jackson Lister FRS (1857–1927) was a British zoologist and plant collector from Leytonstone who collected biological specimens during travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific region.

Life

Lister attended St John's College, Cambridge where he was appointed Demonstrator in Animal Morphology in 1881, and Senior Lecturer in Animal Morphology in 1892. During 1887-1888 he also served as volunteer naturalist on the surveying voyage of HMS Egeria to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, where he made valuable collections.

He is commemorated in the specific epithet of an orchid (Phreatia listeri), Lister's palm (Arenga listeri), the Christmas Island lantern flower (Abutilon listeri), and Lister's gecko (Lepidodactylus listeri).

He is also featured on a 1978 postage stamp of Christmas Island together with Lister's Palm.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. His application stated:

References

External links

Works written by or about Joseph Jackson Lister at Wikisource

Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson or Joseph Jackson may refer to:

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Joe Jackson (footballer)

Josef John 'Joe' Jackson (born 3 February 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Workington in the Conference North.

Jackson signed a professional one-year contract with Burnley in May 2011, having joined the club's Centre of Excellence in 2003. He made his first team debut with the club in April 2012. In January 2012, Jackson joined Barrow on loan, returning to his parent club in April.

Career

Burnley

Jackson joined the Burnley Centre of Excellence in 2003 from local side Furness Rovers, progressing through the youth system, signing two-year scholarship forms in the summer of 2009. Jackson featured regularly for the reserve and youth sides, becoming the top scorer in the 2010–11 season, bagging 15 goals in 24 games. His goalscoring form led to him being offered professional terms in the summer of 2011, on a one-year deal. He sustained a foot injury shortly after signing his contract and missed the start of the 2011–12 season. Jackson returned to training in October, featuring with the first team in January 2012, when he was given a squad number and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup defeat at Norwich City. He made his professional debut for the Clarets on 21 April 2012, coming on as a substitute for Charlie Austin in a 4–0 defeat to Blackpool at Bloomfield Road. On 4 April 2013, it was announced that he would not be offered a new contract when it expired in the summer.

Joseph Jackson (Bristol MP)

Joseph Jackson was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Jackson was an alderman of Bristol and was Sheriff of Bristol in 1642 and Mayor in 1651. In 1655 he was made a Military Commissioner for Bristol on 14 March and added to the Trade Committee and made one of the Trade and Navigation Committee on 1 November. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was Military Commissioner again in 1659.

Jackson was probably the younger brother of Miles Jackson.

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