# Everard Jackson

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**Everard Stanley Jackson** (12 January 1914 – 20 September 1975) was a New Zealand [rugby union](/source/Rugby_union) player. A [prop](/source/Rugby_union_positions#Prop), Jackson represented [East Coast](/source/East_Coast_Rugby_Football_Union), [Hawke's Bay](/source/Hawke's_Bay_Rugby_Union) and [Wellington](/source/Wellington_Rugby_Football_Union) at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the [All Blacks](/source/All_Blacks), from 1936 to 1938. He played 11 matches (including six internationals) for the All Blacks.[1] He also played for [New Zealand Māori](/source/M%C4%81ori_All_Blacks) in 1936.

He was selected by the editors of the 1937 Rugby Almanac of New Zealand as one of their 5 players of the year.

Jackson was the son of British-born rugby player [Fred Jackson](/source/Frederick_Stanley_Jackson), and Horowai Jackson (née Henderson) from [Te Araroa](/source/Te_Araroa_(town)). Horowai was the daughter of Everard Hannon Henderson, a British man, and his wife Kamaea Ngatoko of [Ngāti Porou](/source/Ng%C4%81ti_Porou). Everard Jackson married Hineaka (Janey) Cunningham of [Ngāti Kahungunu](/source/Ng%C4%81ti_Kahungunu) in Hastings in 1938. They had six children, Phil, Fred, [Moana](/source/Moana_Jackson), Jacqui, Bob and [Syd](/source/Syd_Jackson_(M%C4%81ori_activist)). Jackson also had another son, Bill Nepia.[2] Bob Jackson married [June Jackson](/source/June_Jackson), née Batley, and they were the parents of [Willie Jackson](/source/Willie_Jackson_(politician)).

During World War II, Jackson served as an officer in the [28th (Māori) Battalion](/source/M%C4%81ori_Battalion), and lost a leg as a result of wounds received in an artillery barrage.[1][2]

## References

1. Luxford, Bob. ["Everard Jackson"](http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/Profile.asp?ABID=425). New Zealand Rugby Museum. Retrieved 22 March 2014.

1. Gillies, Iain (16 October 2012). ["Jackson dynasty lives on"](http://media.api.aucklandmuseum.com/id/media/public/788c1ca9-1907-4d55-8544-fb33a88e6e2f/original.pdf). *Gisborne Herald*. p. 25. Retrieved 7 July 2022. – via [Online Cenotaph](/source/Auckland_War_Memorial_Museum)

## External links

- [Everard Jackson record](https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C120349) at [Online Cenotaph](/source/Auckland_War_Memorial_Museum)

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