|
Johnstone (surname)
Johnstone is a surname. It is a variant of the similar surname Johnston which in most cases is a habitational surname derived from several places in Scotland. Etymology #The habitational surname ''Johnstone'' / ''Johnston'' is in most cases derived from the name of Johnstone located in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name ''John'' and ''tone'' or ''toun'' ("settlement" in Middle English; ''tun'' in Old English), literally meaning "John's town". There are several similar place names in Scotland, including the city of Perth, which was once known as ''St. John's Toun''. This and other similarly named locations may also be sources for the habitational surnames ''Johnstone'' / ''Johnston''. List of persons with the surname 17th century * James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell (1602–1653) * James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale (c.1687–1730) * Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet (1697–1772), Scottish baronet and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnston (surname)
Johnston is in most cases a habitational surname derived from several places in Scotland. Historically, the surname has been most common throughout Scotland and Ireland. Etymology This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name ''John'' and ''tone'' or ''toun'' ("settlement" in Middle English, literally meaning "John's town". People with the surname ''Johnston'' A–E * Alan Johnston (born 1962), BBC correspondent * Albert Johnston (rugby league) (1891–1961), Australian rugby league footballer * Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), Texian, American, and Confederate general * Alexander Johnston (other), several people * Andrew Johnston (other), several people * Andrew Galbraith Johnston (died 1886), brewer of Oakbank, South Australia * Anthony Johnston (other), several people * Arnrid Johnston (1895-1972), Swedish sculptor and illustrator * Arthur Johnston (poet) (1587–1641), Scottish physician and poet * Arthur Johnston ('' fl. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet of Sciennes and Westerhall was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons between 1707 and 1722. Early life Johnstone was the second son of Sir James Johnstone of Westerhall, a member of the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland. His mother Margaret was the daughter of John Bannatyne of Corehouse in Lanarkshire. He married Henrietta Johnston, the daughter and coheiress of James Johnston of Sciennes, Edinburgh before 1698. His elder brother John was an MP and became a baronet. Career Johnstone was a political ally of his distant relation the Earl of Annandale. In the Parliament of Scotland he was a member from 1698 to 1707 for the burgh of Annan, of which Annandale was the patron. He initially supported the Union with England, and when Annandale shifted towards opposing it, Johnstone intermittently joined him. After the Union, Johnstone received the continuing sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Johnstone
Archibald Russell Johnstone (known as Archie Johnstone) (18 September 1896 – 9 September 1963) was a Scottish journalist, hotelier and humanitarian, who defected to the Soviet Union. His first wife was the English writer Nancy Johnstone. Early life Johnstone was born in Fraserburgh in 1896, to John Johnstone, variously a miner drawer, auctioneer and journalist, and his wife Catherine (known as Kate) Jamieson. He worked initially in Aberdeen, for the ''Daily Journal'' and the '' Evening Express''. In WWI Johnstone was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, joining in 1915, and serving until 1919. On joining in 1915 he is described as a junior reporter. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. From 1921 to 1926 he lived at 50 Palatine Road, Northenden, Cheshire (now Greater Manchester), whilst working for the '' Daily Sketch''. In 1927 he moved to London, living initially in the Hampden Residential Club in Somers Town. He married the writer Nancy Johnstone (né ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Johnstone
Sir Alan Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (31 August 1858 – 31 July 1932) was a British diplomat. Biography Johnstone was a younger son of Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent, and Charlotte Mills. He entered Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1879. He became Secretary of the Legation to Copenhagen in 1895, and moved to Germany as Secretary of the Legation ( Charges d'Affaires) to Darmstadt and Karlsruhe in 1900. In April 1902 he represented the British King Edward VII during the Golden Jubilee of Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden. The following year he was appointed Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna. In 1905 he became Ambassador to Denmark and served in that position until 1910. He was made a Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. The latter award carried a degree of knighthood. Between 1910 and 1917 he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands and Luxembourg (the post w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet
Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (October 1729 – 30 May 1805), known as William Johnstone until 1767, was a Scottish advocate, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1805. He was reputedly the wealthiest man in Great Britain. He profited from slave plantations in North America, and invested in building developments in Great Britain, including the Pulteney Bridge and other buildings in Bath, buildings on the sea-front at Weymouth in Dorset, and roads in his native Scotland. He was a patron of architect Robert Adam and civil engineer Thomas Telford. Early life William Johnstone, as he was born, was the second son of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet of Wester Hall, Dumfries, and his wife Barbara Murray, the oldest sister of the literary patron Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank. His older brother was the soldier and politician Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet. His younger brothers included the politician and naval officer George Johnstone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Johnstone
Thomas Johnstone (sometimes called Tom Johnson) (1772–1839) was an English sailor, smuggler and Admiralty saboteur. He was commonly known as ''Johnstone the Smuggler'' or ''the Hampshire Smuggler''. Writing in 1823, biographer John Brown described Johnstone as a real-life Rob Roy. Biography Johnstone was born near Lymington in 1772. Lymington had a long history of smuggling, beginning with the surreptitious transport of wool to the continent in the 17th century to evade high excise taxes. In 1724 Daniel Defoe wrote of the town: "I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing; which I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End in Cornwall." Johnstone's father was a fisherman and smuggler and began taking his son to sea from the age of 9. By the age of 12, when his father died, Johnstone was an accomplished mariner and his familiarity with the English Channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnstone (East India Company)
John Johnstone (28 April 1734 – 10 December 1795) was a Scottish nabob, a corrupt official of the British East India Company who returned home with great wealth. Described as "a shrewd and unscrupulous business man", he survived several scandals and became a major landowner when he returned to Scotland in 1765. Johnstone sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1774 to 1780, having bribed his way to a victory in the Dysart Burghs. Early life and family Johnstone was born in Edinburgh, the fifth son of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet (1697–1772) and his wife, Barbara (died 1773), daughter of Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank. The Jacobite plotter Alexander Murray of Elibank was his uncle. His brothers included the British Army officer and politician Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet (1726–1794), the wealthy lawyer and politician William (later Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (October 1729 – 30 May 1805), kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Johnstone (explorer)
James Johnstone (c. 1759 – 1823) was a British naval officer and explorer. He is noted for having served as sailing master of the armed tender and later acting lieutenant during George Vancouver's 1791–1795 expedition to the Pacific Northwest. Johnstone Strait in British Columbia is named after him. Naval and private career Johnstone joined the navy early in 1779, serving aboard the ships HMS ''Keppel'' (a 14-gun sloop), HMS ''La Fortune'' (a recently captured French frigate), , , and ; during this time he sailed to New York, the West Indies (several times), and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake. On the last ship he met Archibald Menzies, whom Johnstone would become lifelong friends with. He was appointed master in 1785, receiving his master's certificate the following year. Both he and Menzies were discharged in August 1786. Despite passing his lieutenant's examination the next month, he wouldn't receive his commission until seven years later. In October 1786 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet
Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet (23 January 1726 – 3 September 1794)) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and then a politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain for all but one of the years 1784 to 1794. Sir James was the son of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet and his wife Barabara, daughter of Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank. In about 1759 he married Louisa Maria Elizabeth Colclough, the widow of Rev. John Meyrick, vicar of Edwinstowe, East Retford, Nottinghamshire. They had no children. He joined the marines in 1748 as a Second Lieutenant, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1772. Johnstone first tried to enter Parliament at the 1774 general election, when he began canvassing Dumfries Burghs, where the interest of the 3rd Duke of Queensberry was dominant. However, he made little progress and withdrew in favour of Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch, who was also unsuccessful. Queensberry's candidate William Douglas took the seat. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Johnstone (1764–1813)
George Johnstone (10 December 1764 – 20 November 1813) was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1800 to 1813. Johnstone was born in Pensacola, Florida. He was one of four illegitimate sons of George Johnstone, then a captain in the Royal Navy, later an admiral. His mother was Martha Ford. He was elected at a by-election in 1800 as Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Aldeburgh. The following year, he bought an estate in Wales and began canvassing the borough of Hedon in Yorkshire, and topped the poll at the 1802 general election. He was re-elected 3 times, facing a contest only in 1807 Events January–March * January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies. * January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with ..., and held the seat until his death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Johnstone (Royal Navy Officer)
George Johnstone (1730 – 24 May 1787) was a Royal Navy officer who saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, rising to the rank of post-captain and serving for a time as commodore of a British naval squadron. In a multifaceted career he was also a member of parliament, a director of the East India Company, a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida from 1763 until 1767. Johnstone was born into a gentry family in 1730, and embarked on a naval career. Early in his service there occurred several incidents which revealed both positive and negative aspects of his character. He was involved in encounters with the enemy where he was praised for his bravery, and incidents where he was censured for disobedience. He rose through the ranks to his own commands and had some success with small cruisers against enemy merchants and privateers. After the end of the Seven Years' War he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess Of Annandale
George Vanden Bempde (earlier Johnstone) (29 May 1720 – 29 April 1792), 3rd Marquess of Annandale, succeeded James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale on his death in 1730 (but in practice from 1733), and enjoyed that title from then to his own death, whereupon the title became extinct. His change of surname from Johnstone to Vanden Bempde was a condition of receiving an inheritance from John Vanden Bempde, and was confirmed by an Act of Parliament of 1744. See also * Earl of Annandale and Hartfell * Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet (21 September 1732 – 14 July 1807) was a British Member of Parliament. Early life Born Richard Johnstone he was the son of Colonel John Johnstone (d. 1741), second son of Sir William Johnston ... * Johnstone Baronets of Westerhall References 1720 births 1792 deaths Marquesses of Annandale {{Scotland-marquess-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
