Henry Jackson | |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Hutt | |
| In office 2 July 1879 – 15 August 1879 | |
| Preceded by | William Fitzherbert |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Mason |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Jackson 1830 England |
| Died | 29 October 1906 (aged 76) Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Relations | Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (grandfather) |
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Henry Jackson (1830 – 29 October 1906) was a New Zealand politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives (M.H.R.) in the Wellington region. An officer of the Royal Indian Navy and naval surveyor, he was in New Zealand on leave of duty when control of the Indian Navy changed from the East India Company to the British government in India, following the 1857 Indian Mutiny. He worked as a surveyor and was dismissed as chief surveyor of Wellington District in 1879. He successfully stood in a parliamentary by-election but was in the House of Representatives for only one month before the house was prorogued, and lost his position in the subsequent general election.