Johnson, Robert Augustus

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8.10.1794 Johnsons at Bird's / 9.10.1794 at his / 10.10.1794 / 25.6.1795.

Robert Augustus Johnson 1745-1799, member of Lunar Society (see Birmingham Archives letters to Matthew Boulton) married Anna Rebecca, youngest sister of Lord Craven (she married 1st at Binley Warwicks 10.6.1766 Edward Ludford Taylor and 2nd at Ogbourne St George, Wilts 21.1.1773 RAJohnson). See Bodleian Ms. Don. c. 191, 192, 195 & b.40/1-2.

Born Olney, Bucks son of Rev Woolsey Johnson & wife Jane, brothers George William, Charles Woolsey; sons Robert Henry (matric Brasenose Oxford 1799 age 17), General William Augustus d.1863, Charles Thomas; daughters Georgiana, selina, Harriet wife of John Dalrymple esq, Maria (abroad). His will dated 1797 mentions his chimical apparatus PCC 1799 of Wistanton, Shropshire, his widow died 11.3.1816 PCC 1816.

1795 subscr to Winterbotham's America RAJ, Rev Kenilworth