David Jackson died on New Year s Eve A well-known director of a family business that is a Watford institution and dates back more than 140 years has died. David Jackson, the fourth generation of the family to run Jackson Jewellers in The Parade, passed away on New Year’s Eve, aged 82. David, of Loudwater Lane, Croxley Green, first worked alongside his mother in the shop after leaving the Marines and was part of the business for more than 60 years. The jewellers has been in the Jackson family since 1876 and moved into its current shop – a building dating back to the 1480s – in the 1950s.