Military and Political Career
Jackson served in the Royal Lancaster Regiment of Militia in the Second Boer War, and transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914.
He was elected as a Member of Parliament at the By-election in February 1915, representing Howdenshire (Yorkshire) until resigning his seat on 3 November 1926. He served as Financial Secretary to the War Office 1922-23. In 1927 he was appointed Governor of Bengal and in that year was knighted with the GCIE and was made a member of the Privy Council. He was awarded the KStJ in 1932. In 1932, he was shot at close range by a girl student named Bina Das in the convocation hall of the University of Calcutta, but escaped unhurt. Also, that year, he was appointed a GCSI.
Sir Stanley Jackson was saved from the attempt on his life by Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Suhrawardy (the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta). Suhrawardy was knighted by the King for his heroism. Suhrawardy was the father of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah and the uncle of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
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