JOHNSON, William (c.1660-1718), of Blackwall, Mdx. and Mandeville’s Manor, Sternfield, Aldeburgh, Suff.

Family and Education

b. c. 1660, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Johnson† of The Gate House, Blackwall, Mdx. and Friston Hall, Suff.; bro. of Sir Henry Johnson*. educ. Leyden 1678. m. by 1687, Agneta, da. of Hartgill Baron, clerk of the privy seal, of Windsor, Berks., 3s. 9da. PCC 218 Tenison; E. Anglian, n.s. iii. 198; Hedges Diary (Hakluyt Soc. lxxiv), 249; The Ancestor, x. 163.

Offices Held

Asst. R. African Co. 1687–9, 1716; capt.-gen. of Guinea 1716–d.; cttee. E. I. Co. 1690–1, 1698–9, 1702–6; er. bro. Trinity House 1709–d. K. G. Davies, R. African Co. 384; W. R. Chaplin, Trinity House, 64; Add. 22187, f. 219.

Gent. privy chamber 1690–1702. N. Carlisle, Gent. Privy Chamber, 206.

Bailiff, Aldeburgh 1691, Oxford 1699; freeman, Oxford 1699. W. Suss. RO, Shillinglee mss Ac.454/896, Edward Pratt to Sir Edward Turnor*, 18 June 1691; Oxford Council Acts (Oxford Hist. Soc. n.s. ii), 287.

Parlimentarian

JOHNSON, William (c.1660-1718), of Blackwall, Mdx.

Main residences: Blackwall, Mdx.; Mandeville’s Manor, Sternfield, Aldeburgh, Suff.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

JOHNSON, William (c.1660-1718)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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