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.