JOHNSTONE, Edward (eld. son of the preceding). b. Ladywood house near Birmingham 9 April 1804; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828, barrister I.T. 1838; a founder of the Literary association of the Friends of Poland 1832; author of What is Poland? a question of geography, history and public law 1836; The general orders and practice of the courts of common law in Ireland 1854; claimed the dormant marquisate of Annandale 1876, claim dismissed by House of Lords as not having been proved 1881. d. Worcester 20 Sep. 1881. bur. Edgbaston. Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 170–3; Edgbastonia, iv 21–3 (1884).
JOHNSTONE, Henry James Wolfenden (eld. son of James Johnstone 1777–1845, physician extraordinary to William IV. 1830). b. 1808; ed. at Westminster sch. and St. George’s hosp. where he became house surgeon and teacher of anatomy; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843; edited with his father The Medico-Chirurgical Review; had a large practice, retired through bad health 1848; resided in France 1848–50; presumed to be author of a series of letters in The Times beginning 20 Dec. 1851, exposing and condemning Louis Napoleon’s imperial designs; author of Clinical observations on diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1851. d. High view, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate 19 Oct. 1889.
JOHNSTONE, James (brother of Edward Johnstone 1804–81). b. Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 12 April 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1832; F.R.C.P. 1834; studied in Edin., Paris and London; professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham 1841 to death; phys. to the general hospital 1841 to death; pres. of British Medical Association, Sep. 1865; author of A therapeutic arrangement and syllabus of materia medica 1835; A discourse on the phenomena of sensation as connected with the mental, physical and instructive faculties of man 1841. d. Leamington 11 May 1869. Langford’s Modern Birmingham, ii 333–7, 492 (1877).
JOHNSTONE, James (son of James Johnstone a messenger of court of bankruptcy, d. 1865 aged 79). b. Charles st. Old st. London 26 June 1815; a messenger of bankruptcy court, Basinghall st. 1842–61; head of firm of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle & Co. of 3 Coleman st. buildings, accountants 1861 to death; bought the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers from Charles Baldwin for £16,500 in 1857, issued the Standard as a morning paper 29 June 1857 at price of 2 pence, reduced price to 1 penny 4 Feb. 1858; started the Evening Herald 29 June 1857 which ceased 27 May 1865; the Morning Herald ceased 31 Dec. 1869; discontinued evening issue of the Standard 29 June 1857, but revived it 11 June 1860, appeared in a new form 1 Jany. 1870, sometimes circulated 100,000 copies; paid off all his liabilities and became sole proprietor of Standard 1870. d. Hooley house, Coulsdon, Surrey 21 Oct. 1878. J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 146–54, portrait; Vanity Fair 14 Feb. 1874 p. 81, portrait; Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 226, 239–41, 336–7 (1887).
JOHNSTONE, James (eld. son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, Stirlingshire). b. Overton, Rutland 4 July 1801; ed. at Rugby and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1824; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 1851–57. d. 24 Feb. 1888.
JOHNSTONE, John Beer. b. Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a week up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett 1882; presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on his eightieth birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200 dramas for which he received on an average about £5; he sold an extravaganza and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-; his chief printed dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion theatre July 1848; The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother. Surrey theatre March 1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar. Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt. Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854; Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend. Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo or a search for two fathers. Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857; Morley Ashton or a sea voyage 1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye 1872. d. 25 April 1891. bur. Brompton cemet. The Era 17 March 1883 p. 8.
JOHNSTONE, John Douglas. b. 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827; captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17 April 1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860; C.B. 27 July 1855. d. Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.
Note.—He and his son J. D. Johnstone were the first in the assault on the Redan, where he lost his left arm.
JOHNSTONE, Sir John Vanden Bempde, 2 Baronet. b. Hackness hall near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P. Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars 22 April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while hunting in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs 20 Feb., d. 34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. bur. at parish church, Hackness 3 March. Reg. and mag. of Biog. i 294 (1869).
JOHNSTONE, Montague Cholmeley (3 son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan 1768–1830). b. 2 March 1804; ensign 27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March 1849; lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. d. Baden Baden 22 Sep. 1874.