Joseph Cooksey Jackson

For other people named Joe Jackson, see Joe Jackson (disambiguation).

Joseph Cooksey Jackson KC (12 January 1879 – 26 April 1938^[1]) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe from 1931 to 1935.^[1]

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster^[2][3] and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900.^[2] He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1908, and was called to the bar in 1909.^[2]

He defended the boxer Jackie Brown on an assault charge in 1934, with Edgar Lustgarten as his junior.^[4] In 1936 he successfully prosecuted Dr Buck Ruxton, in the infamous killings known as the Jigsaw Murders.^[3]

References

1. "House of Commons". Leigh Rayment. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
2. "Jackson, Joseph Cooksey (JK897JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Craddock, Jeremy (28 May 2021). The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-9767-6.
4. "Boxer who bit a man's ear". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2010.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Cooksey Jackson

Further reading

• Blundell, R. H.; Wilson; G. Haswell (1950). James H. Hodge (ed.). Famous Trials III. Middlesex: Penguin Books. pp. 162–236. ISBN 978-0-140-00787-9.
• Craddock, Jeremy (2022) [2021]. The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-750-99767-6.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Abraham England	Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe 1931–1935	Succeeded by Richard Whitaker Porritt