JOHNSON, _Harry John_. _b._ Birmingham 10 April 1826; was with sir C. Fellowes in Lycia 1840; studied under Samuel Lines, W. J. Müller and at the Clipstone st. acad. London; Assoc. Instit. Painters in W.C. 1868 and member 1870; exhibited 15 landscapes at R.A. 1859–80; some of his pictures are at South Kensington. _d._ 12 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood, London 31 Dec. 1884.
JOHNSON, HENRY. _b._ near London 1814; in employment of D. Appleton & Co. publishers, New York 20 years; partner with Robert Martin in the publication of serials, periodicals and illustrated books 1855, firm became Johnson, Fry & Co.; connected with Brooklyn real estate; identified with the boulevard running to Coney island. _d._ Gravesend, Long Island 27 Nov. 1872. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1872 xii_ 634.
JOHNSON, SIR HENRY ALLEN, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shelbourne, Nova Scotia 26 Sep. 1785; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; A.D.C. to Prince of Orange during Peninsular war; knight of the military order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands; succeeded 18 March 1835. _d._ Southland, Isle of Wight 27 June 1860.
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).
JOHNSON, PAUL. _b._ 1789; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Sidestrand, Norfolk 1834–72; R. of Overstrand 1841–72; author of The fall of the Yarmouth suspension bridge, with reflections. Norwich 1845; The death of the prince imperial Louis Napoleon, a poem 1879; An epitome in verse of the life of the Prince Consort 1883. _d._ Kirmington, Ulceby, Lincs. 29 Oct. 1883.
JOHNSON, PERCIVAL NORTON (only son of John Johnson, at one time the only commercial assayer in London). _b._ 1793; worked with his father; assayer and metallurgist at 79 Hatton garden, London about 1816; began and carried on manufacture of German silver, and introduced it to general use in England; invented several pottery colours, amongst them the rose-pink; the first person who refined and manufactured platinum upon a commercial scale; F.R.S. 30 April 1846; of firm of John Johnson & Sons, assayers of bullion, metals and minerals, 18A Basinghall st. London, assayers to the bank of England and the Mint. _d._ Stoke house near Dartmouth 1 June 1866. _Quarterly Journal of geological soc. xxiii_ 39–41 (1867); _Proc. of R.S. xvi_ 23–25 (1868).
NOTE.--He made and gave the Wollaston medals to geological society many years; they were composed of palladium, a metal discovered in platinum, which in 1867 became so scarce that it sometimes realized ten guineas per ounce.
JOHNSON, PETER. Professional swimmer. _d._ of inflammation of lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany. 1890.
JOHNSON, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ about 1832; architect at Newcastle; had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865; F.S.A. _d._ Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.
JOHNSON, THOMAS MARR. _b._ Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed. Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works; with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9; member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb. 1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of Holborn viaduct station, London. _d._ 14 Westbourne st. Hyde park, London 20 July 1874. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix_ 268–9 (1875).
JOHNSON, JOSEPH TOWERS, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers. _b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. _d._ 37 Mitford place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. _bur._ Tooting cemetery 13 July. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 225, 242 (1847), _portrait_; _The Players_, _iii_ 311 (1860), _portrait_.