Jackson, George Knowil ♂

Education

D. Mus. 8.1.1791. No testimonials recorded, but work on thorough bass probably accepted as a thesis.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 15.4.1757 at Oxford.

Career

Emigrated to America 1795 where he became a teacher of music and a prolific composer. [Teacher]

Published mainly musical works.

Death

Died Boston [U.S.A.] 18.11.1822.

Sources

• Dictionary of Australian biography
• New Grove). See also George K. Jackson in Bound for America: three British composers, by Nicholas Temperley. (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2008). pp. 123-194.