F.S. Jackson — known to the press as 'Jacker', though his nickname inside cricket was 'Jacko' — was the son of W.L. Jackson, MP, later Baron Allerton. Educated at Harrow, he had captained the school cricket XI; he then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1889. By 1892 he was Cambridge captain. His final Varsity Match in June 1893, just before the Lord's Test, ended in a 266-run Cambridge victory in which Jackson scored heavily and bowled tirelessly.
The Australia tourists were a strong side under Jack Blackham; the first Test at Lord's started on 17 July 1893. The selectors — there was no formal selection committee yet, the choice falling to MCC president Lord Sheffield — picked Jackson on the strength of his Cambridge form. He batted at six in England's only innings, came in at 31 for 4, and made 91 before being run out. He then took 4 wickets in Australia's second innings with his lively medium pace. The match was drawn (Australia 269, England 334; Australia 234 for 7).
Jackson played twenty Tests in all, every one against Australia and every one in England — he never made an overseas tour, citing first business and then political commitments. His record across those twenty Tests reads 1,415 runs at 48.79 with five centuries, plus 24 wickets. He captained England in 1905, won the toss in all five Tests, and led England to a 2-0 Ashes win.