End of his In 1845, while still lieutenant, Charles Jenkin 

 acted as Admiral Pigot's flag captain in the Cove 

 of Cork, where there were some thirty pennants ; 

 and about the same time, closed his career by an 

 act of personal bravery. He had proceeded with 

 his boats to the help of a merchant vessel, whose 

 cargo of combustibles had taken fire and was 

 smouldering under hatches ; his sailors were in 

 the hold, where the fumes were already heavy, 

 and Jenkin was on deck directing operations, when 

 he found his orders were no longer answered from 

 below : he jumped down without hesitation and 

 slung up several insensible men with his own hand. 

 For this act, he received a letter from the Lords of 

 the Admiralty expressing a sense of his gallantry ; 

 and pretty soon after was promoted Commander, 

 superseded, and could never again obtain employ- 

 ment. 



The In 1828 or 1829, Charles Jenkin was in the same 



jacksons. watch with another midshipman, Robert Colin 

 Campbell-Jackson, who introduced him to his family 

 in Jamaica. The father, the Honourable Robert 

 Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, came of 

 a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scotch ; 

 and on the mother's side counted kinship with 

 some of the Forbeses. The mother was Susan 

 Campbell, one of the Campbells of Auchenbreck. 

 Her father Colin, a merchant in Greenock, is said 

 to have been the heir to both the estate and the 



