JACKMAN, James

Architect

Was born in Brill, Buckinghamshire in England and was educated at Culham College (?). He was later articled to George Winship, AMICE, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Jackman arrived in the Cape Colony in 1896. It is not certain where he first worked in Cape Town but in about 1905 he was working on his own account as an architect and civil engineer. Among other buildings in Cape Town he designed Annandale Hall in the suburb of Gardens.

He was married to Georgia Elizabeth Jackman (19 Nov 1888 – 4 Aug 1973). They are buried in the Maitland Cemetery in Cape Town.

ISAA 1927. (ISAA mem list; Juta's dir CT 1906; SAAR May 1948:135 death notice; SAWW 1908)

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

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Annandale Hall: 1800s : 1898. Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *

Club House, Green and Sea Point Bowling Club: 1930. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Shops/flats for HDF Nelson: 1926. Woodstock, Western Cape - Architect

Books citing JACKMAN

ISAA. 1927. Register of Members the Institute of South African Architects. Johannesburg: ISAA (Unpublished Record). pp J1

Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Cape Town: Unpublished Thesis UNISA. pp