History of the Johnstones, 1191-1909, with ... - Electric Scotland

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College, London, student Royal Academy of Arts, 1876-80, and was medallist
of South Kensington School of Art. He studied painting in France. He
travelled in North Africa, 1879-80; explored Portuguese West Africa and
River Congo, 1882-83 '> led a Royal Society Expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro,
1884. H.M. Vice-Consul in Cameroons, 1885 ; Consul for Province of Mozam-
bique, 1888; and founder of the British Central Africa Protectorate 1889;
Consul-General in Regency of Tunis, 1897-99; and Commander-in-Chief
of Uganda Protectorate, 1899-1901. Has published essays on the "Tunisian
Question," " Life of Livingstone," " River Congo," " History of a Slave," " The
Nile Quest," " The Uganda Protectorate," " The Colonization of Africa by Alien
Races," and others. He lives at St. John's Priory, Poling, Arundel.
James William Douglas Johnstone, late Inspector-General of Education,
Gwalior State, Central India, born at Murree, Punjab, 1855. Son of late
Major-General Henry Campbell Johnstone, C.B., of the Indian Staff Corps.
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and University. Principal of Daly College,
Indore, 1855, and lent by Government of India to Gwalior State as tutor
to the Maharajah Scindia, 1890. Besides other posts, he was employed on
famine duty in 1897 ar>d 1900; and accompanied the Maharajah to England
in 1902 to attend King Edward's Coronation.
Colonel Francis Buchanan Johnstone, D.S.O., born 1863. Son of David
Johnstone of Croy, Row, Dumbarton. Married, 1887, Edith Arethusa Padwick.
Entered the Royal Artillery in 1882, and served in South Africa.
Rev. J. O. Johnston, M.A., Vicar of Cuddesdon and Principal of Cuddesdon
College, born at Barnstaple 1852. Son of Rev. G. Johnston and his wife,
Elizabeth Morgan. Educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and Keble College,
Oxon. Author of Life and Letters of H. P. Liddon, D.D., and other works.
Rev. Hugh William Johnston, Rector of North Cray, Hon. Canon of
Canterbury, head of the Irish family of Redemon. His daughter married Dr
Ridgeway, Lord Bishop of Chichester.
Alderman Charles Johnston, of the City of London.
John Lawson Johnston was in business in Edinburgh in early life, and
afterwards removed to London, where he acquired a fortune from a useful
invention. He rented Inverary Castle after the death of the late Duke. His
son, George Lawson, married, in 1902, a daughter of Lord St. John of Bletsoe.
George Hope Johnston, fourth son of Francis Johnston of Handsworth,
Staffs., born 1841. Married, 1867, Emily Wilkinson. J.P., Staffs.
Among many eminent ministers, the Rev. David Johnston, born 1734,
must be noted. Appointed to North Leith in 1765, and made a D.D. of
Edinburgh in 1781. He was the founder of the Blind Asylum in Edinburgh
in J 793> an d was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to George III. in Scotland
the same year. At the request of a sailor's wife he wrote to Napoleon and
asked him to release her husband, then a prisoner in France. Dr Johnston
received an answer from Talleyrand that the request was granted and the
man would be sent home. One of Campbell's poems is founded on this incident.
The handsome group of cottages in Johnstone Park, Dumfries, was built by