Painter, ceramist and teacher, born and lived in Great Harwood, Lancashire, who attended Accrington School of Art, 1948–53, and Liverpool College of Art, 1954–5. He taught at Bangor Street School and Blakey Moor School, becoming head of art at Pleckgate High School, all in Blackburn. Shackleton’s richly coloured, stylised figurative works were shown in mixed exhibitions and solo shows. These included Four Young Northern Painters, Crane Gallery, Manchester, 1956; A group of somewhat wayward pictures, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1964; and Adam und Eva – heute, Ausstellung im Kunstamt Berlin–Wilmersdorf, West Germany, 1972. There were solo shows at Crane Kalman, 1959, Tom Driberg in Reynolds News tipping Shackleton as a “young artist to watch”; and Salford Art Gallery, 1959 and 1974.