JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL (186o— ), British Unitarian divine, was born in Nottingham. He studied at London University, and at Gottingen and Harvard. In 1887 he became assistant to Stopford Brooke, at Bedford chapel, London, and in 1889 he married Brooke's daughter, Olive Cecilia. He was sub sequently minister of Unitarian churches in Liverpool and Birm ingham. In 1902, on the foundation of The Hibbert Journal, Jacks was appointed first editor. In the following year he be
came instructor in philosophy at Manchester college, Oxford, and from 1915 to 1931 was principal of that college. Jacks wrote Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke (1917); All Men are Ghosts (1913) ; From the Human End (1916) ; From Authority to Free dom (1920), Legends of Smokeover (1921) ; The Challenge of Life (1924) ; The Faith of a Worker (1925) ; Heroes of Smoke over (1926).