merary and First-Lieutenant, to the Thalia 46, and Raleigh 16, Capts. Robt. Wauchope and Mich. Quin, fitting at Chatham and Sheerness – and, 9 May, 1837, to the Téméraire 104, Capts. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy and Sir John Hill, guard-ship at the latter place. He has been on half-pay since 1838.
Lieut. Johnston married, in 1835, Louisa Drusilla Sidney, youngest daughter of the late Jas. Cummings, Esq., R.N.
JOHNSTON. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 13.)
James Charles Johnston, born in Nov. 1803, is maternal grandson of the late Sir Geo. Richardson, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1817, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Semiramis 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo on the coast of Africa; was next employed, between Oct. 1818 and March, 1825 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), in the Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Aurora 46, Capt. Henry Prescott, chiefly as Midshipman, on the Home, Mediterranean, and South American stations; and, in Nov. of the latter year, became Mate of the Philomel 10, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Viscount Ingestrie, similarly employed. He was promoted for his services in the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827; and was subsequently appointed – 1 1 May, 1833, to the Donegal 78, Capt. Arthur FanShawe, off Lisbon – 24 Feb. 1835 (after several months of half-pay), to the Winchester 52, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel – 20 Oct. 1836, to the Hercules 74, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, John Toup Nicolas, and Edw. Barnard, employed until Nov. 1839 on the Channel, Lisbon, West India, and Halifax stations – 10 Oct. 1840, to the Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Henry Digby at the Nore – 11 Sept. 1841, as First, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, fitting for Chatham – and, 13 Dec. following, to the Warspite 50, Capt. Lord John Hay. He invalided home from the North America and West India station in June, 1842, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Johnston married, 25 April, 1843, Jane Dunlop, daughter of the late Capt. Thos. Hamilton, of Dowan, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Geo. Louis Augustus Colquhoun, Bart. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
JOHNSTON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
James Henry Johnston entered the Navy, 16 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spartiate 74, Capts. Geo. Murray, John Manley, and Sir Fras. Laforey. In that ship, after serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, off Ferrol and Rochefort, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and on 21 Oct. 1805 was present in the battle of Trafalgar. He removed, in Oct. 1809, to the Ocean 98, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, who, on 4 of the next Dec, nominated him Lieutenant of the Canopus 80, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin – an act which the Admiralty confirmed by commission dated 16 Feb. 1810. Being superseded from the Canopus in Nov. of the latter year, Mr. Johnston was subsequently appointed – 23 Sept. 1811, to the Kite sloop, Capts. Benj. Crispin and Geo. Canning, employed off the Texel and in the Mediterranean – in Jan. 1813, to the command of the Quail schooner, stationed in the Archipelago under the orders of Capt. John Clavell – in Aug. 1813, again to the Kite, Capts. Rowland Mainwairing and Thos. Forster, off the coast of Syria – and, 3 Dec. 1814, to the Leveret 10, Capt. Jonathan Christian, in the Downs. He has been on half-pay since July, 1815.
JOHNSTON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Robert Johnston entered the Navy, 21 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malabar 74, Capt. John Temple; attained the rating of Midshipman in Nov. of the same year; and, between June, 1808, when he returned home from a voyage to the Brazils and the Cape of Good Hope, and July, 1814, was successively employed, in the Invincible 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly, Semramis 36, Capt. Wm. Granger, Norge 74, Capts. John Sprat Rainier and Wm. Waller, and Asia 74, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, on the Home, Lisbon, Cadiz, Mediterranean, and Bermuda stations. He then assumed command, with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, of the Jane advice-vessel, in which he served, on the American coast and in the West Indies, until the close of the war with the United States. He was promoted to his present rank in his former ship, the Asia, Capt. Alex. Skene, 15 Feb. 1815; and in Feb. 1816, after having re-visited the Mediterranean and West Indies, was placed on half-pay. He has not been since employed. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
JOHNSTONE. (Lieutenant, 1818. f-p., 10; h-p., 26.)
Henry Hope Johnstone entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rifleman 18, Capt. Joseph Pearce, and, after serving for some time on the Home station, proceeded to the coast of North America, where he was present with the squadron in Penobscot Bay at the capture of the town of Castine and the destruction of the U.S. frigate John Adams, in Sept. 1814. Becoming Midshipman, soon afterwards, of the Royal Oak 74, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he attended in that ship the ill-fated expedition against New Orleans; and, on her return to England in the summer of 1815, he became attached, as a Supernumerary, to the Prince 98, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Spitbead. In July, 1818, after he had been employed for a period of more than two years and a half in the North Sea and West Indies, in the Pelican 18, Capts. Robt. Lisle Coulson and Edw. Curzon, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Pique 36, Capt. John Mackellar, to which frigate he was confirmed on 20 of the following Nov. He was paid off 21 Dec. 1818; and was lastly, from 6 Dec. 1824 until about the close of 1826, employed in the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
Lieut. Johnstone is married, and has issue.
JOHNSTONE. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 13; h-p., 10.)
Henry Wedderburn Johnstone entered the Navy 29 June, 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 18 Aug. 1831; and was subsequently appointed – 23 Jan. and 8 May, 1833, to the Donegal 78, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean – 16 July, 1834, to the Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, with whom he returned home from Lisbon and was paid off in Nov. 1836 – 30 Jan. 1837, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 7 Dec. 1837, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Racehorse 18, Capt. Henry Wm. Craufurd, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he was superseded a few months afterwards – and, 9 Aug. 1841, in a similar capacity, to the Ardent steam-vessel, Capt. John Russell, lying at Chatham. He was advanced to his present rank on 23 of the following Nov., but has not been since afloat.
JOHNSTONE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
Robert Ballard Johnstone entered the Navy, in April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Resistance 38, Capt. Chas. Adam, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship and, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Invincible 74, Capt. Chas. Adam, until Jan. 1814 – witnessing, in the former, the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule; and [errata 1] assisting, in the Invincible (independently of a participation in many particular services), at the defence of Tarra-
