Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson (1783 – December 1846) was an English Quaker minister who, with his brother Jonathan, founded the English village of Calder Vale, Lancashire.

With another brother, John, they had moved to Calder Vale from their family's home, Spout House in Nether Wyresdale.

He married, firstly, Elizabeth Labrey, of Rooten Brook Farm in Quernmore. He married a second time, to Mary Wilcockson. It was licensed as a place of worship on 21 October 1829. The meeting house became a Grade II listed building in 1986. The Calder Bridge Burial Book was begun in April 1830, and was maintained for over a century.

In 1835, the brothers built today's Lappet Mill, on the banks of the River Calder in Calder Vale. They also built the terraced mill workers' houses near the mill.

He was made a minister in July 1836. The burial ground is marked only by "simple gravestones bearing minimal inscriptions". It ran along two sides of the meeting house and is believed to be still in use.