William Jackson

(1737 c.-1795)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jackson, William, 1737?-1795 DNB: Jackson, William [pseud. Scrutineer] (1737?-1795), journalist and spy LBT ID: WiJacks1795 VIAF ID: 39231772 LOC ID: nr91018544	B/BAP: 1737 DIED: 1795-05-03
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Irish clergyman who wrote for the Morning Post and afterwards as a spy for the French government, plotting an invasion of Britain; he was found guilty of treason and poisoned himself before he could be executed.
REFERENCES TO William Jackson: James Hamilton Browne, “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and Visit to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (August 1834) 56-67 Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 135 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 1