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).