Background
Born in Bombay, India, he was a descendant of the Duke of Wellington, he was called Arthur.
Born in Bombay, India, he was a descendant of the Duke of Wellington, he was called Arthur.
Johnson moved in Upper Canada in 1835, first settling in Portuguese 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.
A keen collector of both animal and vegetal specimens, Johnson was schoolmaster and rector of Saint Philip"s Church, Weston.
Johnson died in Toronto in 1880.