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In argument he was as courteous and considerate to the merest tyro as to 

 the most eminent of his professional colleagues. He was of a shy, retiring 

 disposition, grave, and in appearance much older than his years, and was 

 familiarly known to bis colleagues as " the Sage of Manchester Square." 

 Sitting absorbed in thought in the corner of his landau, as he drove about on 

 his professional rounds, he was a familiar figure in the West End. 



Though serious in aspect, he had a fund of dry humour, and enjoyed 

 a joke, even at his own expense. He was easily bored, and would take 

 a play at the theatre in two or more instalments, necessitating separate 

 tickets, rather than sit out the whole at once. When dining with his friends, 

 which he seldom did, he would not unfrequently get up, beg to be excused 

 when a certain hour came, at whatever stage of the proceedings. He was 

 not fond of foreign travel, but liked to take holidays driving about the 

 country in his carriage. He had little or no artistic perception, and this, as 

 Dr. Buzzard has remarked ('Brit. Med. Journ.,' Oct. 14, 1911), probably 

 acted prejudicially on his style of composition. 



He had no recreations beyond novel reading, which he indulged in to a 

 large extent. Increasing deafness in the later years of his life caused him 

 to keep aloof from scientific meetings and from society in general, so that 

 he became more and more of a recluse. 



Childless himself, he was passionately fond of children, and delighted to 

 bring toys to the children of his colleagues, who all loved and trusted him 

 with their confidences. He married his first cousin, to whom he was 

 devotedly attached, and her death, over thirty years before his own, was an 

 irreparable loss to him. 



Besides a world-wide reputation among his professional brethren, Jackson 

 received many honours and marks of affectionate esteem from his colleagues 

 and pupils. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Boyal Society in 1878. 

 He was F.R.C.P. (Lond.) and Hon. F.R.C.P.I., LL.D. Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow, D.Sc. of Leeds, and Hon. M.D. of the University of Bologna, 

 an honour from abroad which gave him special pleasure. He delivered in 

 succession the Gulstonian (1868), Croonian (1884), and Lumleian (1890) 

 Lectures to the Boyal College of Physicians. 



The Neurological Society, of which he was the first President, founded the 

 Hughlings Jackson Lectureship in his honour, and he delivered the first 

 lecture of the series himself in 1897 on " The Belations of Different 

 Divisions of the Cerebral Nervous System to One Another and to Parts of 

 the Body." The second lecture was delivered in 1900 by Prof. Hitzig, on 

 " Hughlings Jackson and the Cortical Motor Centres, in the Light of 

 Physiological Research " (' Brain,' vol. 23, 1900). 



When he retired from the active staff of the London Hospital, he was 

 presented with his portrait (Calkin) by his colleagues and admirers at home 

 and abroad " in recognition of their esteem and admiration of his great 

 services to the London Hospital Medical College, his distinguished position 

 in the profession, and the advances he effected in medical science by his 



