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DEATH OF A CELEBRATED EQUESTRIAN CLOWN.—On Monday Mr. Edmund Jackson expired at his residence, Mount-street, Westminster-road, of consumption, after a lingering illness of two years. He was a great favourite at Astley’s, and at most of the principal provincial circuses. Those whose prejudices are so narrow as still to incline them to regard the profession of the stage as inseparable from recklessness in private life, may have their notions corrected by the example of Mr. Jackson. He was a Freemason, a Forester, an Old Fellow, and a member of Benefit Societies, without being a recipient of their funds; and he received many flattering testimonials of his exertions to increase their means of doing good. A long and painful illness, with its concomitants of increased expenses, and the cessation of ordinary resources, has placed his widow in a state of privation, from which it is contemplated to relieve her by a benefit on Thursday, November 10. Mr. William Cooke has, in the kindest manner, placed his establishment at disposal for this purpose, and the late Mr. Jackson’s praiseworthy efforts in connexion [sic] with institutions for the relief of distress, and his public talents will, we hope, ensure his widow a testimonial at once gratifying and substantial.
