• Source: William Jackson (curler)

    • William Kilgour Jackson (14 March 1871 in Lamington, South Lanarkshire – 26 January 1955 in Symington) was a Scottish curler. He was the skip of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
    Jackson ran his family's farm in Symington. He was one of the top skips in Scotland at the time. He served as vice president of the Royal Club in 1922–23 and 1931–32 and served as president from 1933–34.
    He was the father of fellow gold-medallist Laurence Jackson.


    See also


    Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics


    References




    External links


    William Jackson at World Curling
    William Jackson at Olympics.com
    William Jackson at Olympedia

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