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'''Julian Jackson''' (1790–1853) was a British geographer and colonel of the Imperial Russian staff.

==Life==
The son of William Turner Jackson and his wife Lucille, he was born 30 March 1790, and baptised at [[St. Anne's Church, Westminster]] on 24 May that year. He passed through the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], was nominated to a Bengal cadetship by [[Sir Stephen Lushington]] in 1807, and was appointed second lieutenant in the [[Bengal Artillery]] 26 September 1808, and first lieutenant 28 April 1809.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Jackson, Julian|volume=29}}</ref>

Jackson resigned his rank in India 28 August 1813 to seek employment in the [[Duke of Wellington]]'s army, but arrived too late. On 2 June 1815 the emperor [[Alexander I of Russia]] appointed him to the quartermaster's staff of the imperial suite, with the rank of lieutenant. He did duty with the quartermaster-general's staff of the 12th Russian infantry division under Count [[Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov]], forming part of the allied army of occupation in France, until 6 November 1818, when he went to Russia with them in the rank of staff-captain.<ref name="DNB"/>

On the expansion of the Lithuanian army corps in 1819, Jackson was appointed to the quartermaster-general's staff, and attached to the grenadier brigade. He did duty with this part of the army during most of his service, becoming captain 8 August 1821, and lieutenant-colonel 29 March 1825. He was promoted colonel on the general staff of the army 14 August 1829, and retired from the Russian service 21 September 1830.<ref name="DNB"/>

On Jackson's retirement [[Georg von Cancrin]], [[List of Finance Ministers of Imperial Russia|Imperial finance minister]], appointed him commissioner and correspondent in London for the Russian department of manufactures. Early in 1841 he was appointed secretary of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] of London. He resigned the secretaryship in February 1847. About the same time he was suddenly superseded in his Russian post and was in financial difficulty; through [[Sir Roderick Murchison]] he obtained a clerkship under the council of education, which he held for life, and [[Nicholas I of Russia]] also gave him a small pension.<ref name="DNB"/>

Jackson was made a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1845, and was a member or corresponding member of other learned societies. He was a knight of the [[Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov)|Order of Saint Stanislaus]]. He died, after long illness, on 16 March 1853.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Works==
Jackson's ''Guide du Voyageur'' (Paris, 1822), went through several French editions, and was reproduced in English as ''What to Observe; or the Traveller's Remembrancer'', from 1841. He also wrote a pamphlet on ''National Education'', which went through two editions; a work on ''Minerals and their Uses'' (London, 1848); a memoir on ''Cartography''; and numerous reviews.<ref name="DNB"/>

Jackson contributed to the ''Bibliothèque universelle de Genève'', from 1830 to 1832; and wrote for the ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society''. He translated and edited from the French [[Théophile-Sébastien Lavallée]]'s treatise on ''Military Geography'', which he revised heavily. He also indexed the first ten volumes of the ''Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society''.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Family==
Jackson married Sarah Ogle, by whom he had several children.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Notes==
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