Introduction

Biography

Jackson’s fa­ther played the or­gan at St. Pe­ter’s Church in Old­ham.

Robert at­tend­ed the Roy­al Aca­de­my of Mu­sic, and was or­gan­ist at St. Mark’s Church at Gros­ve­nor Square in Lon­don. He al­so played in the Birm­ing­ham Sym­pho­ny Or­ches­tra.

In 1868, he took ov­er his fa­ther’s du­ties at St. Pe­ter’s in Old­ham, and played the or­gan there 46 years (to­ge­ther they served al­most an en­tire cen­tu­ry).

He was head of the Old­ham Mu­sic­al So­ci­ety, 1891–1906.