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).
JOHNSTON, ANDREW. _b._ Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil
engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8;
assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist.
engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1875. _d._ 1884. _Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii_ 434–5
(1884).
JOHNSTON, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835;
assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S.
1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king
Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he
wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative
council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels
in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom
of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in
Natal 1860. _d._ The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. _Medical
Times 17 Aug. 1872 p._ 189.
JOHNSTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1765; entered navy about 1787;
governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806;
the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular
man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A.
on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. _d._ Cowhill
near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856.
JOHNSTON, DAVID (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and
Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and
Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published
Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul
1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A
general view of the system of public education in France. Edin.
1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in
France 1829. _d._ 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879.
_The Academy 1879 ii p._ 321.
JOHNSTON, FREDERICK. _b._ 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4
April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2
April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London
31 Jany. 1882.
JOHNSTON, GEORGE. _b._ Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed.
at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S.
Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick
1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc.
1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of
Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history;
author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A
history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London
1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An