William Arthur Johnson

Rev. William Arthur Johnson (1816–1880) was an amateur biologist,[1] naturalist, microscopist, botanist, and ordained clergyman who lived in Canada.[2]

Born in Bombay, India, he was a descendant of the Duke of Wellington,[3] he was called Arthur.[4]

Johnson moved in Upper Canada in 1835, first settling in Port Maitland, Ontario, then to Toronto by 1848.

Johnson went to Diocesan Theological Institute in Cobourg, Ontario and became a clergyman.

In 1865, he founded the Canadian Trinity College School in Weston, Ontario, where William Osler became a student. Johnson became the major early influence for Osler at this time,[5][6] along with his friend James Bovell.[7]

A keen collector of both animal and vegetal specimens, Johnson was schoolmaster and rector of St. Philip's Church, Weston.[8]

Johnson died in Toronto in 1880.

References

  1. ↑ Clelia Pighetti (1984). Scienza e colonialismo nel Canada ottocentesco. L.S. Olschki, p. 261
  2. ↑ News Publishing House, 1926. Queen's Quarterly, Volume 33. p. 2
  3. ↑ Osler Library Archive Collections. Detailed Record http://osler.library.mcgill.ca/archives/index.php/detail/?fondid=4658
  4. ↑ Shenrone Enterprises (1999). Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, Ontario: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settled Families. Volume 1. p. 188
  5. ↑ Jon Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Sir William Osler. Osler
  6. ↑ http://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/Osler-bio.pdf Sir William Osler (1849-1919)
  7. ↑ Bliss, Michael (1999). William Osler: a life in medicine. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 40 ISBN 978-0-19-512346-3. OCLC 41439631.
  8. ↑ Sir William Osler (2001), Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations. Duke University Press. p. 6

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