Modern English biography

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