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Mrs Mary Henrietta Jackson, widow of Mr John Jackson (pseudonym: Terry Driscoll)

Mr John Jackson

Applications

5 (1 successful)

Date period

26 Feb 1857-18 Feb 1881

Awards

  • 30 May 1857 (£20)
  • 8 Jun 1858 (ineligible)
  • 3 Dec 1859 (ineligible)
  • 5 Jan 1860 (ineligible)
  • 17 Feb 1881 (ineligible)

Other author name(s)

(pseudonym) Terry Driscoll

Author's career

  • Clerk of the Irish Treasury

Author's works published

Fiction : *Irish Sketches*; also Journalism

Also named in file

Mrs Mary Henrietta Jackson (dependent)

Timeline

1857

Application Form, Mary Henrietta Jackson – endorsed by John Judkin Butler, Solomon Richards, John Fitzgerald and Congreve Rogers, with additional endorsements on reverse by Crofton M Vandeleur, P C Crampton, Charles James Lever and W R Wilde, and a note by Octavian Blewitt confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

30 May 1857
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Mary Henrietta Jackson to Octavian Blewitt

29 May 1857
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G R Powell to Octavian Blewitt

2 Apr 1857
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John Judkin Butler to the Committee of the Literary Fund

8 May 1857
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Robert Gregg to the Committee of the Literary Fund

9 May 1857
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Solomon Richards to G R Powell

19 May 1857
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu to the Committee of the Literary Fund

23 May 1857
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Mary Henrietta Jackson to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Jun 1857
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Doyne C Bell, secretary to Charles Beaumont Phipps, to Octavian Blewitt, seeking information on Mary Henrietta Jackson

2 Jul 1857
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1858

Mary Henrietta Jackson to Octavian Blewitt

17 May 1858
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G R Powell to Octavian Blewitt

17 May 1858
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Mary Henrietta Jackson to Octavian Blewitt

8 Jun 1858
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Octavian Blewitt to Mary Henrietta Jackson

9 Jun 1858
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1859

Mary Henrietta Jackson to the Committee of the Literary Fund [opening]

3 Dec 1859
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Mary Henrietta Jackson to the Committee of the Literary Fund [conclusion], with Blewitt’s reply

3 Dec 1859-8 Dec 1859
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1860

Isobel Alice Jackson to the Committee of the Literary Fund, with reply by Octavian Blewitt

5 Jan 1860
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1881

Mary Henrietta Jackson to Octavian Blewitt

17 Feb 1881
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Octavian Blewitt to Mary Henrietta Jackson

18 Feb 1881
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1857

‘List of Literary Contributions of the late John Jackson Esq, formerly known as “Terry Driscoll”‘, with endorsements

1857
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Press cuttings – obituaries of John Jackson from the Illustrated Times, the Literarium and three notices, including one from the Literarium, on the grant made to Mary Henrietta Jackson

26 Feb 1857-18 Jun 1857
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