Charles Cooper Johnson

Sir Charles Johnson
Born
Charles Cooper Johnson

20 December 1827
Bath, Somerset, England
Died7 December 1905 (aged 77)
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
 British Indian Army
Rank
General
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

General Sir Charles Cooper Johnson GCB (20 December 1827 – 7 December 1905) was a senior British Indian Army officer.

Johnson was the sixth son of Sir Henry Johnson, 2nd Baronet, and Charlotte Elizabeth Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse and Henrietta Griffiths. He was a grandson of Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet and great-grandson of Frederick Philipse III of New York. He was educated at the East India Company Military Seminary in Addiscombe.

He was commissioned into the 33rd Bengal Native Infantry. He later transferred into the Bengal Staff Corps, which was amalgamated into the Indian Staff Corps in 1861. He was promoted to Major on 7 June 1864. In 1877, while holding the rank of Colonel, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was promoted to the rank of full General on 1 April 1894. Johnson was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1900 Birthday Honours.

Family

Johnson married on 4 January 1860 Jemima Anne Frances Martin (d 18 July 1920), daughter of Rev George Martin by Lady Charlotte Sophia Eliot, second daughter of the 2nd Earl of Saint Germans. They had five sons:

References

  1. ↑ 1901 England Census
  2. 1 2 "Death of Sir Charles Johnson, G.C.B.". Tewkesbury Register. 16 December 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2101. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  4. ↑ "No. 22900". The London Gazette. 7 October 1864. p. 4773.
  5. ↑ "No. 24467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1877. p. 3498.
  6. ↑ "No. 27195". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 May 1900. p. 3327.