Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, Bart.


Photo reference number: 1334

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.)

Mather-Jackson, Sir Henry, Bart., C.B.E., is chairman of the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway, chairman of the Marianao and Havana Railway Co., deputy-chairman Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, of the United Railway of Havana, Cuban Central, and Western Railways of Havana, of John Lancaster's Steam Coal Co., and of the Powell's Tillery Colliery Company, is also a director of the Ebbw Yale Steel Iron and Coal Co. and of the Rhymney Railway Co. He is an alderman and ex-chairman of the Monmouthshire County Council, chairman of the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions, Monmouthshire Standing Joint Committee, of the governors of the Monmouth Grammar School, and of the Mon. Agricultural Institute, Usk, etc. He has given much time to war work, and during the war he was chairman of the Appeal Tribunal. Residence: Llantilio Court, Abergavenny, and 56 Montagu Square, London, W.1.