William Arthur Johnson
{{Short description|Canadian biologist}}
Rev. William Arthur Johnson (1816–1880) was an amateur biologist,Clelia Pighetti (1984). Scienza e colonialismo nel Canada ottocentesco. L.S. Olschki, p. 261 naturalist, microscopist, botanist, and ordained clergyman who lived in Canada.News Publishing House, 1926. Queen's Quarterly, Volume 33. p. 2
Biography
Born in Bombay, India, he was a descendant of the Duke of Wellington,Osler Library Archive Collections. Detailed Record http://osler.library.mcgill.ca/archives/index.php/detail/?fondid=4658 he was called Arthur.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 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.{{Cite web|url=https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/johnson-william-arthur-rev-1816-1880|title=William Arthur Johnson, Rev., 1816-1880|website=McGill Archival Collections Catalogue|access-date=June 21, 2018}} Johnson became the major early influence for Osler at this time,Jon Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. [http://osler.co.uk/archived/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11:sir-william-osler&catid=12:william-osler&Itemid=24 Sir William Osler]. Oslerhttp://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/Osler-bio.pdf Sir William Osler (1849-1919) along with his friend James Bovell.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. A keen collector of both animal and vegetal specimens, Johnson was schoolmaster and rector of St. Philip's Church, Weston.Sir William Osler (2001), Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations. Duke University Press. p. 6 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.{{Cite web|url=https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/william-arthur-johnson-fonds|title=William Arthur Johnson Fonds|website=McGill Archival Collections Catalogue|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
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Further reading
- Keith Dalton, Frederick (1965). A Biography of the Reverend William Arthur Johnson (1816-1880), Clergyman, Artist, Architect, Scientist, Teacher. F.K. Dalton
External links
- [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_william_arthur_10E.html Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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