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John Alfred Stewart Jackson CBE (27 December 1898 – 13 March 1958) was a Chilean-British cricketer and school founder.

A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg spin bowler, he played seven times for the Chile national cricket team against Argentina between 1922 and 1938. Earlier in his career, he played county cricket for Somerset.

Playing career

Jackson was educated at Cheltenham College, then served in the Rifle Brigade during World War I. After the war he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge. In the 1920 English cricket season while at Cambridge University, he made his first-class debut playing against Cambridge University for Somerset. He then played four matches for the university side, but did not gain his blue in their annual match against Oxford University. He then played 13 County Championship matches for Somerset, in addition to one match for the Gentlemen of England against the Combined Services.

Back in Chile, he first played for the national side in December 1922, playing twice against Argentina. He played five more times in matches against Argentina, his last match coming on 29 December 1938, when he found himself on the opposing side to his brother Alfred who was playing for Argentina and had also played for Chile earlier in his career.

Statistics

In first-class cricket, Jackson scored 739 runs at an average of 22.39. He scored one century, an innings of 106 for Somerset against Essex. Jackson also scored three half centuries.

The Grange School

In 1928 Jackson founded the Grange School, Santiago, a boys' school on the English model (now co-educational). He ran the school for thirty years, until his death. For his services in Chile he was appointed OBE in the 1947 Birthday Honours and raised to CBE in the 1955 New Year Honours. In 2006, The Guardian listed the Grange School among the best British-curriculum international schools in the world.

References

1. ^ "No. 37977". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1947. p. 2591.
2. ^ Cricket Archive profile
3. ^ Other matches played by John Jackson Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at CricketArchive
4. ^ First-class matches played by John Jackson at Cricket Archive
5. Scorecard of Chile v Argentina, 29 December 1938 at Cricket Archive
6. Teams played for by Alfred Jackson Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine at Cricket Archive
7. First-class batting for each team by John Jackson at Cricket Archive
8. First-class batting against each team by John Jackson at Cricket Archive
9. "No. 40366". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. p. 22.
10. "The best international schools around the world". The Guardian. London. 12 December 2006.

• 1898 births
• 1958 deaths
• People educated at Cheltenham College
• Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Chilean cricketers
• Somerset cricketers
• Cambridge University cricketers
• Sportspeople from Valparaíso
• Gentlemen of England cricketers
• Rifle Brigade officers
• British Army personnel of World War I
• Heads of schools in Chile
• Members of the Order of the British Empire
• Commanders of the Order of the British Empire