Family and Education
b. c. 1659, 1st s. of Sir Henry Johnson† of The Gate House, Blackwall and Friston Hall, Suff. by Dorothy, da. and h. of William Lord of Melton Street, Kent; bro. of William Johnson*. m. (1) 20 May 1686, Anne, da. and h. of Hugh Smithson, Haberdasher, of Old Exchange Precincts, London, 1da.; (2) 11 Mar. 1693, Martha (d. 1745), suo jure Baroness Wentworth, da. and h. of John Lovelace†, 3rd Baron Lovelace (d. 1693) of Hurley, Berks., s.p. suc. fa. 1683; Kntd. 13 or 18 Mar. 1685. Mems. Stepney, 205; PCC 187 Browning; Add. 22187, f. 106; 22221, f. 495; E. Anglian, n.s. iii. 198; W. L. Rutton, Wentworth Fam. 115; J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London (London and Mdx. Arch. Soc.), 153.
Offices Held
Freeman, Dunwich 1679, Oxford 1697; bailiff, Oxford 1697.
Cttee. E. I. Co. 1684–91, 1698–1702; dep. master of Shipwrights’ Co., Rotherhithe 1686; er. bro. Trinity House 1700–d., master 1707–9.
Main residences: The Gate House, Blackwall, Mdx.; Bradenham, Bucks.; Toddington, Beds.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
JOHNSON, Sir Henry (c.1659-1719)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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