Arthur Jackson (Irish politician)

Arthur Jackson (1853–1938) was an Irish politician. He was an Independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1928.[1] From County Sligo, he was nominated to the Seanad by the President of the Executive Council in 1922 for 6 years.[2] He did not contest the 1928 Seanad election.[1]

Jackson in Dublin in December 1922

Businessman and "the last of the great merchants who made Sligo famous as a trading port",[3] Arthur Jackson was born in Belfast. He moved to Sligo in the 1870s, was High Sheriff of the county in 1899 and died at his home, Lisroyan House, Sligo, on 6 February 1938.[4]

References
  1. "Arthur Jackson". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  2. "President's nominees for Seanad". Houses of the Oireachtas. 6 December 1922. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. "Merchant princes of Sligo" (PDF). Sligo Library. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  4. Sligo Champion, 12 February 1938, p.5


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