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He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge , where he took a first in part I of the natural sciences tripos and graduated with honours in His scientific research at Oxford did not, however, interfere with his other great passion — steeplechase riding — which led him from the foxhunting field to his first ride in the Grand National of A keen huntsman, he took up the sport again after the war, riding in two more Nationals after the war, the last time when he was 40 years old.

In World War II, Jackson distinguished himself in the RAF, making an important scientific contribution [ clarification needed ] to Britain's air defences and to the bomber offensive. He flew more than a thousand hours as a navigator, many of them in combat in night-fighters, with No. This war record stands in contrast to his stated desire at the war's inception to keep Britain out of fighting Germany.

For the rest of his life, Jackson, appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in , lived as a tax exile in Ireland, France and Switzerland. A "rampant bisexual", [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Jackson was married six times, and also lived for three years with Angela Culme-Seymour, the half-sister of Janetta Woolley, one of his wives.

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The others included a daughter of Augustus John , Pamela Mitford one of the Mitford sisters , a princess, and several femme fatales including Barbara Skelton in whose obituary in the Independent is noted her remark that it was "not for love that she married Professor Jackson", he being identified as "the millionaire son of the founder of the News of the World ".

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