Background
Edward Hamilton Johnston was born on 26 March 1885. His father was Reginald Johnston, Governor of the Bank of England from 1909 to 1911.
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He was educated at Eton College before studying at New College, Oxford, switching to history after a year of mathematics and obtaining a first-class degree in 1907.
Career
He joined the Indian Civil Service, winning the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship during his probation, and worked in India from 1909 onwards in various capacities. He took the opportunity to retire in 1924 after working in India for 15 years, and returned to England. Thereafter he spent his time on the study of Sanskrit, later learning sufficient Tibetan and Chinese to make use of material available in those languages.
Although Johnston seems only to have published one article in India (on a group of medieval statues), his later works show that he had noted local Indian practices in agriculture and other areas, since he made reference to these in his analysis of Sanskrit texts.
In 1937, he was elected Boden Professor of Sanskrit and Keeper of the Indian Institute at the University of Oxford, also becoming a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College. He started cataloguing the Sanskrit manuscripts acquired for the Bodleian Library by an earlier Boden professor, A. A. Macdonell, helped improve the museum of the Indian Institute, and worked on the manuscripts held by the India Office Library.
He published several articles on a variety of topics. His family moved to safety in the United States during the Second World War while he stayed in Oxford, serving as an Air Raid Warden and in the Home Guard.
He died on 24 October 1942 at the age of 57.
Achievements
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2013 Augmented Asbury Park project selected for Creative Capital's On Our Radar website (online until 9/30/2013) 2012 Work selected for the Lumen Prize Exhibition 50 2011 Grant-in-Aid for Creativity, Monmouth University 2010 Trailblazer Grant, PGCC Teaching-Learning Center 2009 YAP Grant, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 YAP Supplemental Grant, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Best of Artomatic – Work selected from over 1000 artists at Artomatic 2009, Washington, D.C. Included in "Best of Artomatic" Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD 2008 Honorarium, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI 2008 Research Grant, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2007 Honorarium, Big Ten Conference, Park Ridge, IL 2007 Harold and Vivian Shapiro/John Malik Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2005–08 Jean Paul Slusser Fellowships, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI.
