Christopher Jackson

Christopher Murray Jackson (24 May 1935 – 13 December 2019) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994. After a National Service Commission in the RAF as a pilot, Jackson read physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he was an Open Exhibitioner. Whilst there he founded the Magnates Club which eventually became the Oxford University Guild Society. He then trained in management with Unilever, becoming a senior manager of the Group in 1967. He contested East Ham South as a Conservative in the 1970 General Election and Northampton North in 1974. He was Director of Corporate Development of the Spillers Group from 1974 to 1979.