moted to the rank of Lieutenant, as a reward for his services on the coast of Syria, 4 Nov. 1840; became attached, a few weeks afterwards, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford; served on the East India station from 17 Sept. 1841 until his return home in 1846, chiefly as First-Lieutenant, in the North Star 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home; and on 9 Nov. in the latter year was advanced to his present rank. He is now on half-pay.
Commander Johnson married, 5 Aug. 1841, Georgiana Margaretta, daughter of Vice-Admiral Chas. Carter, but has been a widower since 6 Feb. 1842.
JOHNSON. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 13; h-p., 7.)
George Charles Jefferyes Johnson was born 26 March, 1814.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1827, and embarked, 27 June, 1829, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Philomel 10, Capts. Chas. Graham, Hugh Berners, and Wm. Smith, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where he remained until the summer of 1833. In May, 1834, eight months after he had passed his examination, he returned to the latter station, as Mate, in the Portland 52, Capt. David Price, under whom he served for a period of exactly four years. Joining next, in March, 1839, the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, he bore a part in that ship in the operations on the coast of Syria in 1840; in Dec. of which year he removed to the Thunderer 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring. He continued in the Mediterranean until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841; and has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Chippendale.
JOHNSON. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 15; h-p., 34.)
George Child Johnson entered the Navy, 28 June, 1798, as L.M., on board the Northumberland 74, Capt. Geo. Martin, under whom he witnessed the capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of the French 74-gun ship Le Généreux, served at the blockade and surrender of Malta, and attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. Between Sept. in the latter year and April, 1805, we find him officiating, still in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Aginoourt 64, Capts. Geo. Fred. Ryves and Thos. Briggs; and afterwards joining the Mediator 44, Capt. John Searle, Dolphin and Northumberland, flag-ships in the West Indies of Sir Alex. Cochrane, Seine frigate, Capt. David Atkins, and Aetna bomb, Capt. Wm. Godfrey. While in the latter vessel, in which (after having officiated in her for 18 months as Sub and Acting Lieutenant) he was confirmed in his present rank 31 Jan. 1809, Mr. Johnson served under Lord Gambier at the bombardment of Copenhagen, and the destruction of the shipping in Basque Roads. He left the Aetna in June, 1809, and during the rest of the war was successively employed on the Mediterranean and Home stations in the Ajax 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, Raven sloop, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, Bristol armée en flûte, Capt. Wm. Kent, Echo sloop, Capt. Thos. Percival, Christian VII. 80, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Salvador del Mundo flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett, and Niobe armée en flûte, Capt. Henry Colins Deacon. He has since been on half-pay.
JOHNSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 81.)
John Johnson entered the Navy, 12 Sept. 1886, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Wilson Rathborne, stationed in the Channel and off the coast of Ireland; and from Dec. 1807 until Nov. 1815 served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Ranger 18, Capt. Geo. Acklom, Flamer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders John Cameron and Thos. Cowper Sherwin, and Oberon and Derwent sloops, Capts. Geo. Manners Sutton and Thos. Williams, principally in the Downs, off the north coast of Spain, and at Newfoundland. He then took up a commission dated 25 Feb. 1815, and since 31 Dec. 1846 has been employed in the Coast Guard.
JOHNSON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
John Ormsby Johnson entered the Navy 20 Sept. 1835; passed his examination 16 Nov. 1841; and while holding a Mateship in the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, was employed on shore in the operations against Tzekee in China, 15 and 16 March, 1842.[1] After further serving at Portsmouth and in the Mediterranean in the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, and Inconstant 36, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, he was presented with a Lieutenant’s commission dated 28 June, 1844. He then became attached to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies; and from 16 Jan. 1845 until paid off in 1847 was employed on the same station in the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Fras. Scott.
JOHNSON. (Capt., 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 24.)
John Samuel Willes Johnson, born 3 July, 1793, at South Stoke, near Bath, is eldest son of the Rev. Chas. Johnson, Prebendary of Wells, Rector of South Stoke, and Vicar of South Brent and Berrow, co. Somerset, by Miss Willes, daughter of the late Archdeacon of Wells, and grand-daughter of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells. He is nephew of the late Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.B.; and brother-in-law of the late Capt. Geo. Gosling, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vestal 28, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, in which ship he was employed for nearly two years on the Home and Newfoundland stations. In Nov. 1809, being then a Master’s Mate, he was placed in charge of the Fortitude, a re-captured English merchantman, and sent, with the intelligence of the Vestal having fallen in with an enemy’s squadron, to Lisbon and Cadiz; on his passage whither, although without a gun on board, he succeeded by a bold ruse-de-guerre in inducing an enemy’s armed vessel, by whom he must have been otherwise inevitably taken, to sheer off. After delivering his despatches to the flag-officer in the Tagus, Mr. Johnson proceeded to England, and on his arrival was received for three months on board the Port Mahon sloop, Capt. Villiers Fras. Hatton. In Aug. 1810 he rejoined Capt. Graham in the Pallas 32, then on the eve of her departure for the coast of Norway, where, it appears, he assisted at the capture of four Danish privateers and of several sail of merchantmen, one of the former of which he was ordered to conduct to Leith roads. Accompanying the same Captain in succession into the Southampton 32, and Alcmène 38, Mr. Johnson proceeded in the latter frigate to the Adriatic, where he bore a part in several boat affairs. On one of those occasions, 22 May, 1812, a Franco-Venetian trabacolo, of 4 guns and 30 men, was captured near the island of Lessina, after a sanguinary conflict in which most of the enemy’s crew were killed and all the remainder wounded; while on the part of the British 4 were slain and 22 wounded, 1 of the former and 3 of the latter in the boat commanded by Mr. Johnson, whose conduct was officially mentioned in the highest terms of commendation. On leaving the Alcmène in Dec. 1813, he Joined the Pylades sloop, Capt. James Wemyss, from which vessel, on the occasion of the surrender of Genoa, 18 April, 1814, he was transferred, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of the late Lord Exmouth – an appointment sanctioned by the Admiralty on 18 of the ensuing month. He went on half-pay in Sept. 1814, but, being again placed, in April 1815, under the orders of the same nobleman, continued to serve with him, in the Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, until Oct. 1816 – visiting, in the former ship, Naples, Marseilles, and the Barbary States; and participating, in the Queen Charlotte, in the battle of Algiers. After an
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 2391.
