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 Jummoo, Kashmir 3 March 1882. Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. v 291–3, 604 (1883).
JOHNSON, William Robert. b. 17 July 1830; ed. Putney coll.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 2 Oct. 1850, captain 30 Aug. 1860; engaged in public works department, Mysore 1857; first class permanent superintending engineer 1 Jany. 1880 to death; superintending engineer for irrigation, when he looked after the 38,000 water tanks in Mysore; completed the bridge over the Toonga Bhadra river at Hurryhurh; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 20 Dec. 1875; col. in the army 20 Dec. 1880; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1868. d. London 7 June 1882. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxii 319–20 (1883).
JOHNSON, William Ward Percival. b. 1790; entered navy 2 July 1803, commander 19 Sep. 1835; captain on h.p. 14 Dec. 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. Little Baddow near Chelmsford 26 Dec. 1880. Graphic, xix 216 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii 37 (1881), portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander (son of an architect). b. Edinburgh 1815; with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb. 1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union; Archbishop Tillotson administering the sacrament to lord William Russell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. d. 21 Carlingford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 207, portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander James (eld. son of James S. Johnston of Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire). b. Kinnellar 1820; student Lincoln’s inn 1838; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; deputy recorder of Leeds 1857; a puisne judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1858 to death, acted as chief justice 1867 and 1886; author of A lecture on the influence of art on human happiness. Napier 1861; Reports of cases determined in the courts of appeal of New Zealand 3 vols. 1867; The New Zealand justice of the peace, resident magistrate, coroner and constable. Wellington 1879. d. London 1 June 1888.
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (4 son of Andrew Johnston). b. Kirkhill near Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1804; ed. Edin. univ., LLD. 1865; engraver with his bro. William Keith 1826; geographer in ordinary to the Queen 8 Feb. 1840; F.R.G.S. 1843 and Victoria medalist May 1871; F.G.S. 1845, F.R.S.E. 1850; constructed the first globe illustrative of physical geography, medal from Great exhibition of 1851; a founder of Scotch meteorological soc., and hon. sec.; member Edinb. Geological soc. 1862; published The national atlas of historical, commercial and political geography 1843; The physical atlas of natural phenomena 1848, the first physical atlas published in England; Atlas of classical geography 1853. d. Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire 9 July 1871. bur. Grange cemet. Edinb. 14 July. Athenæum 15 July 1871 p. 81; Proc. R. Geographical Soc. xvi 304–6 (1872).
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (eld. son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1844; ed. Edinb. instit. and Grange house sch.; superintendent of drawing and engraving of maps with Stanford, London 1866–7; life member R.G.S. 1868 and map-draughtsman and assistant curator 1872–3; in charge of geographical branch of W. and A. K. Johnston’s London business 1869–73; a founder of the Grove park rowing club; geographer to the commission for the survey of Palestine 1873–5; geographer in Paraguay 1873–5; published The library map of Africa 1866; Handbook of physical geography. Edinb. 1870; Lake regions of Central Africa 1870; The surface zones of the globe 1874; leader of R. Geogr. Soc. expedition to the head of lake Nyassa, Nov. 1878. d. of dysentery, Berobero 120 miles from Dar es Salaam 28 June 1879. Academy, ii 102, 107 (1879); I.L.N. lxxv 174 (1879), portrait; J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes, i, pp. xiii–xix (1881), memoir and portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander Robert Campbell (3 son of sir Alexander Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). b. Colombo, Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33; private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S. Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843 to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. d. San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888. Athenæum, i 151 (1888).