James Johnson (author and priest)
Rev. James Johnson (1674–1740) was an English author and priest, born at Bowden Park, Wiltshire, a son of George Johnson MP, judge and counsellor of Charles II.
Johnson took his Bachelor of Arts from Hertford College, Oxford before his Master of Arts from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1698. In 1701, he was presented by Sir John Cordell Bt MP as rector of Long Melford, Suffolk. He wrote The Great Duty, a Christian meditation on the Golden Rule, in 1723.
Johnson married Anne Cuthbert, daughter of Thomas, and died at Long Melford in 1740. Their son, James Johnson (Bishop of Worcester), was also a Bishop of Gloucester.
References[edit]
- Transactions – Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, (Volume 8), (1883)
- Joseph Foster. Alumni Oxonienses, (Volume 2), (1891)
- James Johnson. The Great Duty of Doing as We Would Be Done Unto, (1723)
- William Parker. The History of Long Melford, (1873)
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- 1674 births
- 1740 deaths
- 18th-century English writers
- 18th-century English male writers
- 18th-century English Anglican priests
- Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
- Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
- People from Long Melford
- 17th-century Anglican theologians
- 18th-century Anglican theologians
- Early modern Christian devotional writers