Garthmyl Issa near Montgomery). _b._ 4 Feb. 1808; ed. at
Oswestry gr. sch. and London univ. 1828–9; barrister L.I. 30
Jany. 1835; judge of county courts, circuit 28 (Anglesey,
Carnarvon & Merioneth), 13 March 1847, resigned Dec. 1870; a
great supporter of the established ch. in Wales; a promoter of
Cambrian quarterly Mag. 1830 in which he wrote under signature
of Maelog; author of An essay on the causes which have produced
dissent from the established church in Wales 1831, 3 ed.
1870; Suggestions for a reform of the court of chancery 1834;
Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin
of human race 1843; Should the law of imprisonment for debt
be abolished or amended? 1868; Is credit an evil? 1869. _d._
Garthmyl Issa 23 July 1871. _bur._ Berriew ch. _Law Times_, _li_
245, 263 (1871).
JOHNES, JOHN (only son of John Johnes of Dolancothy near
Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, _d._ 12 Sep. 1815). _b._ Dolancothy
6 Feb. 1800; ed. at Carmarthen and Lampeter gr. schs., at Bath
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. and M.A. 1829; barrister I.T.
18 Nov. 1831; judge of county courts, circuit 31 (Carmarthen,
Cardigan and Pembroke), 13 March 1847, resigned Nov. 1861;
recorder of Carmarthen, Dec. 1851 to Oct. 1872; chairman of
Carmarthenshire quarter sessions 1853–72; _shot_ by his butler
at Caio, Carmarthenshire 19 Aug. 1876. _Law Times_, _lxi_ 368
(1876).
JOHNS, AMBROSE BOWDEN. _b._ Plymouth 1776; apprentice to
Benjamin Robert Haydon, bookseller, Plymouth; bookseller at
Plymouth; landscape painter, friend and fellow painter with J.
M. W. Turner, some of his paintings have been sold as being
by Turner; member of Plymouth soc. of artists and amateurs;
exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.
1814–46; some of his paintings are in the earl of Morley’s
collection at Saltram. _d._ Plymouth 10 Dec. 1858. _Pycroft’s
Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 77–81.
JOHNS, CHARLES ALEXANDER (son of Henry Incledon Johns, banker,
Devonport). _b._ Plymouth 31 Dec. 1811; F.L.S. 1836; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841; chaplain National soc. training schs.
Westminster 1842–4; head master Helston gram. sch. June 1843
to Dec. 1847; C. of Porthleven 1844–7; C. of Beenham, Berks.
1848–56; kept a school at Winton house, Winchester 1856 to
death; first pres. Hampshire and Winchester scientific and lit.
soc. 1870; author of A week at the Lizard 1848, 3 ed. 1874;
Flowers of the field 2 vols. 1853; Birds’ nests. Anon. 1854,
2 ed. 1865; The governess. By A schoolmaster of twenty years
standing 1855; Rambles about Paris 1859; British birds in their
haunts 1862, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Winton house, Winchester 28 June
1874.
JOHNS, JASPER WILSON (only son of Thomas Evan Johns of
Cardiganshire). _b._ Dublin 1824; a civil engineer to 1854;
captain commandant 3rd Montgomery rifle volunteers 14 Aug.
1860 to 11 Sep. 1865; partner in Bird & Co., iron merchants,
London 1854; took an active part in promoting railways in Wales;
contested Northallerton 1865 and 1868; M.P. North Eastern
Warwickshire 1885–6; author of The Anglican cathedral church of
St. James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem 1844. _d._ 16 Grenville place,
Cromwell road, London 26 July 1889.
JOHNS, RICHARD (son of Wm. Johns, adjutant of Cornwall militia,
_d._ 1834). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1805; 2 lieut. R.M. 1
Oct. 1825, captain 7 Aug. 1843 to death; author of Poems 1825;
Legends and romances 3 vols. 1839; The schoolfellows or a
by-way to fame 3 vols. 1841; The calendar of victory, a record
of valour by sea and land 1855; The naval and military heroes of
Great Britain 1860, another ed. of the previous work. _d._ Royal
naval hospital, Stonehouse 6 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 671 (1851);
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl Cornub._ 277, 1248.
JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN. _b._ Gosport 29 May 1786; settled in
Utica, N.Y., U.S. of America 1801; barrister; banker; author of
The nature of value, capital, etc. New York 1813; The philosophy
of human knowledge 1828; Physiology of the senses 1856; An
encyclopædia of instruction 1857; Our monetary condition 1864.
_d._ Utica 9 Sep. 1867. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 436
(1887).
JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ about 1793; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1815,
F.R.C.S.I. 1818; F.K.Q.C.P.I. 1841; professor of midwifery in
medical sch. of college of surgeons; founded with Henry Marsh
an institution for diseases of children, in Pitt st. Dublin;
master of the Lying in hospital, Dublin 1840; retired from
practice 1864; author of Essays in Dublin hospital reports and
in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. _d._ 24 Merrion sq. south,
Dublin 19 June 1866.
JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ London 5 Oct. 1791; lecturer on botany
1819; professor of botany Guy’s hospital 1830–73; edited sir
J. E. Smith’s English botany 2 ed. 1832; author of British
poisonous plants 1856, 2 ed. 1861; with J. E. Sowerby The ferns
of Great Britain 1855; The fern allies 1856; The grasses of
Great Britain 1857–61. _d._ Camberwell 21 Sep. 1880. _Journal of
botany_, _xviii_ 351 (1880).
JOHNSON, CUTHBERT WILLIAM (son of Wm. Johnson of the
Coalbrookdale china works). _b._ Widmore house, Bromley, Kent
28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge,
Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took
part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon
local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W.
Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836,
three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1837;
The laws of bills of exchange, notes, cheques, etc. 1837,
2 ed. 1839; The farmer’s encyclopædia 1842, his best work;
with W. Shaw The farmer’s almanac and calendar 1840; with J.
Hare The annual register of agricultural implements 1843–45.
_d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon 8 March 1878. _John Donaldson’s
Agricultural Biog._ (1854) 127–8; _Academy_, _i_ 233 (1878).
JOHNSON, DANIEL JAMES. _b._ 1831 or 1832; civil engineer in
London; superintendent of Kensal Green cemetery 1857–73. _d._
170 Hornington road, Burton on Trent 24 Oct. 1885.
JOHNSON, SIR EDWARD (2 son of John Johnson). _b._ Drumgavesy,
Ireland 1785; educ. Edinb. and Glasgow, M.D. Edinb. 1815;
M.R.C.S. Lond. 1807; hospital mate in army July 1807; assist.
surgeon 28 regt. Nov. 1807 and served in Sweden and the
Peninsula where he was severely wounded; surgeon 2 bat. 39 regt.
1815–16; a physician at Weymouth 1816, retired 1821; K.C.S.
1835, K.C.C.S. 1847; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
1838. _d._ Greenhill, Weymouth 10 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Med. and
Chir. Soc. iv_ 84–6 (1864).
JOHNSON, EDWARD JOHN (youngest son of rev. Henry Johnson of
Bywell, Northumberland). _b._ 1795; entered R.N. 1 May 1807;
commanded the ‘Britomart’ 10 guns 4 March 1829 to 1831 when he
was paid off; surveyed the Faroe islands for the admiralty 1831
etc.; member of magnetic compass committee of the admiralty 1838
etc.; captain 27 Dec. 1838; superintendent of compass department
of R.N. 14 March 1842 to death; F.R.S. 10 May 1836; author of
Practical illustrations of the necessity of ascertaining the
deviations of the compass 1847. _d._ 13 Oxford terrace, Hyde
park, London 7 Feb. 1853.
JOHNSON, ELI (son of Mr. Johnson of George row, Northampton).
_b._ Northampton 1850; a cabinet maker, Northampton; a wood
carver; studied at South Kensington and under J. E. Boehm, R.A.;
sculptor Hugh st. Eccleston sq. London; executed for Northampton
marble bust of Charles Gilpin, M.P., and busts of J. B. Gough,
Dr. Robert Moffat and Henry Vincent; exhibited 3 pieces of
sculpture at R.A. 1878–80; author of The honest Irishman or
a tour in the British isles 1879. _d._ 45 Victoria road,
Northampton 14 Jany. 1881. _Northampton Mercury 15 Jany. 1881
p._ 8.
JOHNSON, ELLEN. Factory girl; author of The lord of the castle,
a fairy legend. London, Darton & Co. 1861, 8^o., 1/6. _d._ 1873.
JOHNSON, FRANCIS. _b._ 1796; travelled in Italy and learnt
Arabic from an Arab; professor of Sanscrit and Teloogoo at
H.E.I.C. coll. Haileybury 1824 to 1845, of Sanscrit, Teloogoo
and Bengali 1845 to Oct. 1855; author of The Sanskrit text of
the first book of Hitopadésa 1840, 4 ed. 1864; Selections from
the Mahábhárata 1842; A dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English
1852; The Gulistān of Sa’di 1863 in Persian. _d._ Hertford 29
Jany. 1876. _bur._ Great Amwell 4 Feb. _Hertfordshire Mercury 12
Feb. 1876 p._ 3.
JOHNSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
rowed stroke in the Cambridge boat when she won the Grand
challenge cup at Henley 1851, also in the race against Oxford
1852; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth 1854–8;
C. of St. John’s, Yarmouth 1858 to death. _d._ Yarmouth, Dec.
1859.
JOHNSON, GEORGE. One of the chief promoters of the Doncaster
races from 1847 and the chief means of largely increasing value
of the prizes; chairman of Doncaster race committee; never
betted more than a few crowns and that on St. Leger only;
superintended building new stand on Doncaster course. _d._
Doncaster 4 Nov. 1855. _Sporting Rev._ (1855) 419–21.
JOHNSON, GEORGE HENRY SACHEVERELL (son of rev. Henry Johnson).
_b._ Keswick, Cumberland 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
Ireland scholar 1827, mathematical scholar 1831, double first
1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1829–55, Greek
lecturer, chaplain and tutor 1842, bursar 1844, dean 1848;
public examiner in the univ. 1834–50; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838;
Savilian professor of astronomy 1839–42; White prof. of moral
philosophy 1842–45; Whitehall preacher, Sep. 1852 to 1854; royal
commissioner on univ. 1850 and parliamentary commissioner 1854;
dean of Wells 27 March 1854 to death; V. of Wells 1855–70;
author of Treatise on Optics 1836; Sermons preached in Wells
cathedral 1857; author with C. J. Ellicott and F. C. Cook of The
book of psalms: with a commentary 1880. _d._ Weston-super-Mare
4 Nov. 1881. _bur._ in the palm ch. yard, Wells cath. 10 Nov.
_Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 112–20 (1854); _Times 7 Nov.
1881 p._ 9; _Guardian 9 Nov. 1881 p._ 1592.
JOHNSON, _George William_ (brother of Cuthbert W. Johnson
1799–1878). _b._ Blackheath, Kent 4 Nov. 1802; in his father’s
salt works; prepared Epsom salts from sea water; made
experiments in gardening and in the manufacture of manures;
barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; professor of moral and political
economy in Hindoo coll. Calcutta 1839–42; edited in Calcutta the
Englishman newspaper and government Gazette 1837–41; owner of
the Fairfax MSS. published as the Fairfax Correspondence 4 vols.
1848–67; edited the Gardeners’ Almanack 1844–66; The Gardener’s
Monthly Volume 12 vols. 1847; Cottage Gardener 1848, renamed
Journal of horticulture 1851 when he edited it with R. Hogg to
1881; with his brother he printed An essay on the use of salt
in agriculture 1821, 13 ed. 1838; Outlines of chemistry 1828;
Paley’s Work 1839; author of A history of English gardening
1829; Memoirs of John Selden 1835; The stranger in India 1843;
The principles of practical gardening 1845; A dictionary of
gardening 1846; The British ferns 1857, 4 ed. 1861; with rev. W.
W. Wingfield The poultry book 1853, 2 ed. 1856; with R. Hogg The
wild flowers of Great Britain 1863. _d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon
29 Oct. 1886. _Journal of horticulture_, _xiii_ 401–4, 424
(1887), _portrait_; _Bookseller 6 Nov. 1886 p._ 1181; _Times 5
Nov. 1886 p._ 6.
JOHNSON, _Harry John_. _b._ Birmingham 10 April 1826; was with
sir C. Fellowes in Lycia 1840; studied under Samuel Lines, W.
J. Müller and at the Clipstone st. acad. London; Assoc. Instit.
Painters in W.C. 1868 and member 1870; exhibited 15 landscapes
at R.A. 1859–80; some of his pictures are at South Kensington.
_d._ 12 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood, London 31 Dec. 1884.
JOHNSON, HENRY. _b._ near London 1814; in employment of D.
Appleton & Co. publishers, New York 20 years; partner with
Robert Martin in the publication of serials, periodicals
and illustrated books 1855, firm became Johnson, Fry & Co.;
connected with Brooklyn real estate; identified with the
boulevard running to Coney island. _d._ Gravesend, Long Island
27 Nov. 1872. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1872 xii_ 634.
JOHNSON, SIR HENRY ALLEN, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shelbourne, Nova
Scotia 26 Sep. 1785; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810;
A.D.C. to Prince of Orange during Peninsular war; knight of the
military order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands; succeeded 18 March
1835. _d._ Southland, Isle of Wight 27 June 1860.
JOHNSON, SIR HENRY FRANKS FREDERIC, 3 Baronet (eld. child
of preceding). _b._ Bath 5 Feb. 1819; ed. at Winchester and
Sandhurst; 2 lieut. 5 foot 22 Nov. 1836, major 5 Oct. 1849 to
15 Jany. 1856 when placed on h.p.; D.Q.M.G. in the Mauritius
31 Dec. 1855 to 18 July 1862; D.A.G. in Jamaica 2 Nov. 1866 to
1 April 1869; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands
1869–70; col. on the staff in command at Jamaica 1870–3; sold
out 1873. _d._ Avranche, Normandy 20 June 1883.
JOHNSON, HENRY ISAAC. _b._ Cambridge; ed. at Christ’s coll.
Camb., 30th wrangler 1852, B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assistant
master at Brighton college 1853–5; rector of Grey Institute,
Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope 1863–73; incumbent of Trinity
ch. Port Elizabeth to 1873; espoused the cause of bishop
Colenso, his church was the only one in Cape Colony that did not
secede from the bishop’s rule; assistant master at Cheltenham
college 1873–4; head master of Royal Institution school,
Liverpool 1874–89. _d._ Penrhyn house, Ullet road, Liverpool 6
May 1892.
JOHNSON, JAMES A. _b._ England 1820; choir master Holy Communion
ch. New York 1846, solo tenor singer in oratorio music; compiled
A tune book 1848; composer of The Offertory sentences set to
music for four voices. New York 1862. _d._ Orange, New Jersey
1883. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 444 (1889).
JOHNSON, JOHN. Ironfounder at 13 Lower Whitecross st. city of
London 1826 to death; member of ward of Cripplegate without 1841
to death; sheriff of London 1836–7, alderman of Dowgate 1839–49,
lord mayor 1845–6. _d._ Alfred terrace, Upper Holloway 12 Sep.
1858. _I.L.N. vii_ 320 (1845) _portrait_, _ix_ 125 (1846)
_portrait_.
JOHNSON, JOHN. _b._ 1801; studied in Italy 1836–40; built St.
Saviour’s ch. Walmer 1846, Water colour gallery, Pall Mall;
decorated H.M. theatre for Benjamin Lumley; built mansion
for sir John Kelk at Tedworth, Wilts. 1878; with Mr. Meeson,
Alexandra palace, which was burnt 9 June 1873; district surveyor
East Hackney; a great fisherman; in 1866 he obtained the prize
for the greatest weight of fish caught 550 lbs.; member of
Piscatorial soc.; member of Thames angling preservation soc.
and on the committee. _d._ 14 Buckingham st. Adelphi, London 28
Dec. 1878. _The Builder_ (1874) 687–9, (1879) 53, 137; _Fishing
Gazette 3 Jany. 1879 p._ 7.
JOHNSON, JOHN JAMES (3 son of William Johnson of The Pallant,
Chichester, _d._ 1823). _b._ June 1812; ed. at Winchester;
barrister M.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 5 May 1864 to death;
recorder of Chichester, Aug. 1863 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864.
_d._ 26 Gresham place, Belgrave sq. London 22 July 1890.
JOHNSON, JOHN MERCER (son of a timber merchant). _b._ Liverpool
1818; ed. Northumberland county gram. sch. New Brunswick;
barrister 1840; member of provincial legislature, postmaster
general 1847, speaker of the house, and attorney general,
solicitor general 1854; member of Quebec and London conferences
which settled the confederation act of the Dominion of Canada
1864, 1867; member for Northumberland in Dominion parliament
1867. _d._ Northumberland, Canada 9 Nov. 1868. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_ 445 (1889).
JOHNSON, JOHN SAMUEL WILLES (eld. son of rev. Charles Johnson,
preb. of Wells, _d._ 1841). _b._ South Stoke near Bath 3 July
1793; entered R.N. 1 Feb. 1807; commander 6 Feb. 1821, on
h.p. from Aug. 1842; captain 9 Nov. 1846; served at capture
of Algiers 1816 and in the first Chinese war 1841; M.P.
for Montgomery district 4 May 1861 to death; author of The
traveller’s guide through France, Italy and Switzerland 1828.
_d._ Hannington hall, Highworth, Wiltshire 25 July 1863.
JOHNSON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1791; a brushmaker in or near Manchester;
tried with Henry Hunt and 8 others at York assizes 16–27 March
1820 for conspiracy and unlawfully assembling in St. Peter’s
Field, Manchester 16 Aug. 1819, sentenced to be imprisoned for
one year in Lincoln castle 15 May 1820; author of A letter to
H. Hunt esq. relating to certain accounts. Manchester 1822, 2
ed. 1822; A second letter to H. Hunt 1822. d. Sep. 1872 aged 81.
_Reports of State Trials_, _i_ 171–496 (1888).
JOHNSON, MANUEL JOHN (only son of John William Johnson of Macao,
China). _b._ Macao 23 May 1835; ed. Addiscombe; lieut. H.E.I.
Co.’s artillery at St. Helena 1821–32, where he erected the St.
Helena observatory 1828; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1835,
B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; in charge of Radcliffe observatory, Oxf.
1839 to death; made observations of double stars and a catalogue
of 6,317 circumpolar stars; adopted the photographic method
of registering meteorological facts 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856;
F.R.A.S., president 1857–8; made a collection of engravings,
sold for £3,359 April 1860; author of A catalogue of 606
principal fixed stars in the Southern Hemisphere observed at
the magnetical and meteorological observatory, St. Helena 1835;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 1840–58. Oxford 1842 etc. _d._ The observatory, Oxford
28 Feb. 1859; Johnson prize instituted 1862 and given once in 4
years to astronomers. _Proc. Royal Soc. x_ 21–4 (1860); _Monthly
Notices R.A. Soc. xix_ 169–70 (1859), _xx_ 123–30 (1860);
_Mozley’s Reminiscences_, _ii_ 188–99 (1882).
JOHNSON, PAUL. _b._ 1789; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814; R. of Sidestrand, Norfolk 1834–72; R. of Overstrand
1841–72; author of The fall of the Yarmouth suspension bridge,
with reflections. Norwich 1845; The death of the prince imperial
Louis Napoleon, a poem 1879; An epitome in verse of the life of
the Prince Consort 1883. _d._ Kirmington, Ulceby, Lincs. 29 Oct.
1883.
JOHNSON, PERCIVAL NORTON (only son of John Johnson, at one time
the only commercial assayer in London). _b._ 1793; worked with
his father; assayer and metallurgist at 79 Hatton garden, London
about 1816; began and carried on manufacture of German silver,
and introduced it to general use in England; invented several
pottery colours, amongst them the rose-pink; the first person
who refined and manufactured platinum upon a commercial scale;
F.R.S. 30 April 1846; of firm of John Johnson & Sons, assayers
of bullion, metals and minerals, 18A Basinghall st. London,
assayers to the bank of England and the Mint. _d._ Stoke house
near Dartmouth 1 June 1866. _Quarterly Journal of geological
soc. xxiii_ 39–41 (1867); _Proc. of R.S. xvi_ 23–25 (1868).
NOTE.--He made and gave the Wollaston medals to geological society many
years; they were composed of palladium, a metal discovered in platinum,
which in 1867 became so scarce that it sometimes realized ten guineas
per ounce.
JOHNSON, PETER. Professional swimmer. _d._ of inflammation of
lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany.
1890.
JOHNSON, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ about 1832; architect at Newcastle;
had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865;
F.S.A. _d._ Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.
JOHNSON, THOMAS MARR. _b._ Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed.
Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E.
7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works;
with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of
Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9;
member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb.
1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of
Holborn viaduct station, London. _d._ 14 Westbourne st. Hyde
park, London 20 July 1874. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix_ 268–9
(1875).
JOHNSON, JOSEPH TOWERS, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers.
_b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and
Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The
Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at
the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s
Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager
for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac
Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to
mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. _d._ 37 Mitford
place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 13 July. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 225, 242 (1847),
_portrait_; _The Players_, _iii_ 311 (1860), _portrait_.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM (3 son of James Johnson of Kendal, attorney,
who _d._ 1828). _b._ Kendal 1823; sub-editor of the Glasgow
Practical mechanics’ and engineers’ magazine 1845–48; started
The Practical Mechanics’ Journal, Glasgow 1848, edited it 1848
to death, 16 vols.; patent agent at Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1850;
edited Practical draughtsman’s book of industrial design 1861;
author of The imperial cyclopædia of machinery 1852–6; with J.
H. Johnson of Abstract of the patent law amendment act 1852.
_d._ Glasgow 10 June 1864.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Cumberland 1784; ed. St. John’s coll.
Camb. 1810, B.D. 1827; C. of Grasmere 1811, teacher at Grasmere
sch., and a friend of Wordsworth; in charge of National
society’s sch. Holborn, taught on the Bell system 1812,
school removed to Baldwin’s gardens 1814; trainer of masters,
travelling organiser, inspector of schools, and later on cashier
and comptroller of accounts of National Soc. to 1840; called the
Patriarch of National Education; R. of St. Clement’s Eastcheap
with St. Martin’s Orgar, London 19 Oct. 1820 to death. _d._ 29
Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 20 Sep. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 526,
661 (1864).
JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Hindley near Wigan, Lancs. 7 March 1831;
ed. at Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Prior park, Bath; missioner at
St. Mary’s on the Quay, Bristol 1853–6 and at Chippenham, Wilts.
1856–9; assist. priest at pro-cathedral, Liverpool 1859–62;
priest at Breck, Poulton-le-Fylde 1862–79 and at Lydiate 1879
to death; composer of Litany of B.V.M. for four voices 1872;
Hail! holy Joseph hail! for four voices 1874; Missa de Sancta
Maria 1880; Hail, thou resplendent star. Chorus with solo 1881;
The lion and the bear 1878 and his other comic song obtained
popularity. _d._ Lydiate 9 Oct. 1885. _Gillow’s English
Catholics_, _iii_ 641 (1887); _Liverpool Catholic Almanac_
(1886) _p._ 96, _portrait_.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1776; ensign of a new
independent company of foot 18 Sep. 1793; captain 32 foot 7
Jany. 1795, lieut. col. 17 May 1810 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed
on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; retired from the army 1855; M.P.
Boston 1820–26, M.P. Oldham 1837–47; sheriff of Lincolnshire
1830. _d._ Wytham on the hill near Stamford 26 Oct. 1863.
JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM GILLILAN (youngest son of William Johnson,
merchant). _b._ Fortfield, co. Antrim 1808; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1830; barrister King’s inns, Dublin
1838; M.P. Belfast 10 July 1841, election declared void 19 Aug.
1842; mayor of Belfast 1849 when he received the queen on her
visit there 11 Aug.; knighted at Belfast 12 Aug. 1849; a founder
of the Protestant orphan asylum, Belfast 1866, and with his wife
of the Belfast ophthalmic hospital. _d._ College sq. north,
Dublin 9 April 1886. _The Belfast news-letter 10 April 1886 p._
5.
JOHNSON, W. H. (son of an ordnance officer, H.E.I.C.S.) _b._
1831; ed. at Mussooree; in the North-west Himalayan survey
1848–52; ascended the Snoy Peak near the Néla pass 22 June 1854;
in the Kashmir survey party 1855, conducted the triangulations
of the Kishangunga valley, fixing his theodolite on some of the
highest peaks which had ever been ascended, going nearly to
20,000 feet; first European traveller who visited the plains of
Khotan 1865; in service of maharajah of Kashmir 1866 to death,
governor and joint commissioner of Ladakh; presented with gold
watch by R. Geogr. Soc. 1875. _d._ it was thought by poison at
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