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.