We regret to record the death on Saturday last of
Mr. Frederick Huth Jackson, director of the Bank of England, and one of the wisest and most attractive men in the City of London. He was only fifty-eight. Mr. Jackson, after leaving Balliol, meant to go to the Bar, but ho was persuaded to join the firm of Frederick Huth and very soon made his mark in the world of finance. Ho was one of those able counsellors who guided the Government through the financial crisis at the outset of the War, and it was he who inspired the scheme for the State insurance of shipping which enabled our mercantile marine to continue its work, despite the enemy's outrages. Mr. Huth Jackson avoided political life, but he was a sound Free Trader and Liberal Unionist and sympathized with all that is best in our English traditions.
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