Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician.
18 Facts About Stanley Jackson
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Stanley Jackson played in 20 Test matches for the England cricket team between 1893 and 1905.
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Stanley Jackson went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1889.
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Stanley Jackson spotted the talent of Ranjitsinhji when the latter, owing to his unorthodox batting and his race, was struggling to find a place for himself in the university side, and as captain was responsible for Ranji's inclusion in the Cambridge First XI and the awarding of his Blue.
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Stanley Jackson was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1894.
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Stanley Jackson captained England in five Test matches in 1905, winning two and drawing three to retain The Ashes.
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Stanley Jackson still holds the Test record for the most matches in a career without playing away from home.
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Stanley Jackson's own bowling was a brisk fast medium, with a good off cutter his main weapon.
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Stanley Jackson was the first batsman to be dismissed in the so-called "nervous nineties" on Test debut.
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Stanley Jackson was President of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1921.
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Stanley Jackson succeeded Lord Hawke as President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1938 after Hawke's death and held the post until his own death in 1947.
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Stanley Jackson was a lieutenant in the Harrow Volunteers when he was on 16 January 1900 appointed captain in 3rd Battalion of the King's Own.
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Stanley Jackson left with his battalion in February 1900 to serve in the Second Boer War, and arrived in South Africa the following month.
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Stanley Jackson transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914.
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Stanley Jackson was elected as a Member of Parliament at a by-election in February 1915, representing Howdenshire until resigning his seat on 3 November 1926.
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On 6 February 1932, Stanley Jackson sidestepped and ducked five pistol shots fired at close range by a girl student named Bina Das in the Convocation Hall of the University of Calcutta.
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Stanley Jackson married at St Helen's Church, Welton, East Yorkshire, on 5 November 1902 to Miss Harrison-Broadley, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harrison-Broadley, of Welton-House, Brough, Yorkshire.
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Stanley Jackson died in London of complications following a road accident.