aggrieved that the Conservatives had "jumped their claim" by nominating a candidate. They selected their own candidate, but were persuaded to withdraw to avoid splitting the non-socialist vote and thereby handing the seat to Labour, but the alliance between the two parties was regarded as having been broken, and the outcome of the election depended on the destination of Liberal support. With his Liberal background and extensive agricultural contacts in the area, Jackson won the seat with a majority of 6.8% of the votes, a 12% swing to Labour. In Parliament, he spoke for small farmers and cultivators, but was not a devoted follower of Labour Party policy; true to the old Liberal principle of free trade, he opposed all restraints on trade and production. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 1945 general election, and was ennobled in July 1945 as Baron Jackson, of Glewstone in the County of Hereford, entitling him to a seat in the House of Lords. The title became extinct on his death in 1954, aged 60. Family In 1923 Jackson married Hope Hardy Gilmour, daughter of Benjamin Waterfall Gilmour from Glasgow. They adopted a son, who was unable to inherit the title, which was remaindered to "heirs male of his body", as is usual with British hereditary peerages. References External links 1893 births 1954 deaths People from Ross-on-Wye 20th-century English farmers Labour Party (UK) councillors Councillors in Herefordshire Welsh Labour Party MPs UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs who were granted peerages British Army personnel of World War I Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers soldiers People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Barons created by George VI