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]

Biography

Known as Arthur,[3] Johnson was born in Bombay, India. His father, John Johnson, served under the future Duke of Wellington in the army of the East India Company in the early 1800s.[4] [5] The future Duke may have been his godfather.[6] Johnson moved in Upper Canada in 1835, first settling in Port Maitland, Ontario, then to Toronto by 1848. He attended the Diocesan Theological Institute in Cobourg, Ontario and became a clergyman. He was a curate to Archdeacon A. N. Bethune at Cobourg. However, his tractarian tendencies made him unpopular and he was made rector of St.Philip's at Etobicoke, a remote village across the river from Weston. There, he established a school in 1865 that was to become Trinity College School in Weston, Ontario, where William Osler became a student.[7] Johnson became the major early influence for Osler at this time,[8][9] along with his friend James Bovell.[10] A keen collector of both animal and vegetal specimens, Johnson was schoolmaster and rector of St. Philip's Church, Weston.[11] Johnson died in Toronto in 1880. A collection of his microscopic and field sketches are conserved at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University.[12]

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. ^ 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
  4. ^ 'Johnson, William Arthur', Dictionary of Canadian Biography, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_william_arthur_10E.html
  5. ^ 'Johnson, Arthur Jukes', Dictionary of Canadian Biography', https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_arthur_jukes_15E.html
  6. ^ Osler Library Archive Collections. Detailed Record https://web.archive.org/web/20090331151951/http://osler.library.mcgill.ca/archives/index.php/detail/?fondid=4658
  7. ^ "William Arthur Johnson, Rev., 1816-1880". McGill Archival Collections Catalogue. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  8. ^ Jon Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Sir William Osler. Osler
  9. ^ http://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/Osler-bio.pdf Sir William Osler (1849-1919)
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Sir William Osler (2001), Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations. Duke University Press. p. 6
  12. ^ "William Arthur Johnson Fonds". McGill Archival Collections Catalogue. Retrieved June 21, 2018.

Further reading

  • Keith Dalton, Frederick (1965). A Biography of the Reverend William Arthur Johnson (1816-1880), Clergyman, Artist, Architect, Scientist, Teacher. F.K. Dalton
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