Background
He was born in Thirsk, Yorkshire, and served an apprenticeship as a currier, then acted as a leather merchant in Bermondsey, London.
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He emigrated to South Australia on the Dutch ship Fopsmit, arriving in August 1853. Fellow passengers were West. H. Sharland (1828 – 29 July 1911), Joseph Grundy and William Townsend. Johnson and Townsend opened a boot and shoe shop in Rundle Street, then a retail premises in King William Street next to the Gresham Hotel, with his "Pantheon" boot and shoe factory opposite.
He later moved to premises on North Terrace.
In 1883 he sold the business to Corris, Craig & Company and retired from commercial life. Johnson was elected to the Adelaide Council for the Gawler ward 1874–1875.
He was a prominent protectionist. Johnson died at his home in Washington Street, Glenelg after a bout of influenza.
Thomas Johnson, junior
(died 3 November 1904) of Broken Hill
Frank Johnson (27 April 1855 – 25 April 1921), auctioneer, councillor, alderman and mayor of Adelaide 1907–1909
Fred Johnson (7 October 1857 – March 1941), timber merchant, was mayor of Charters Towers, Queensland many times. eldest daughter Ellen Johnson ( – 10 December 1900) married David Davidson on 5 April 1876, lived at "Gowan Lea", Prospect
third daughter Mary Emily Johnson ( – 1 June 1926) married undertaker Edwin Arthur Mayfield (c 1854 – 2 April 1920) on 9 March 1886, lived at Glenelg
fourth daughter Bertha Lockley Johnson (c 1863 – 29 April 1944) married John Craven ( – 18 November 1932) on 1 February 1887, lived at "Rusheens", Childers street, North Adelaide
Alice Elizabeth Johnson ( – 13 November 1913) married Joseph Henry Morgan on 22 January 1891, lived in Melbourne
They lived on Avenue Road, North Adelaide, then from around 1890 at Palmer Place, North Adelaide.
Membership
He was member of the South Australian House of Assembly for West Adelaide from February 1875 to April 1878 with colleagues West. K. Simms then J. Darling and for East Adelaide from June 1881, following the resignation due to illness of Freetrader G. South. Fowler, and sat until April 1884. Johnson was a member of the City Rifles, South Australia"s first volunteer corporations
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British