Alexander Johnson (August 1, 1830 – February 11, 1912) was an

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mathematician and academic. Born in

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, Johnson was educated at

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(TCD) where he was a Scholar in 1852 and received his B.A. in mathematics (with Gold Medal) in 1855. TCD later awarded him M.A. (1858) and LL.D. (1861). In 1857, he had emigrated to Canada and was appointed a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at

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. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and a Vice-Principal from 1886 to 1903. He received an honorary DCL from the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville in 1882. He was an original member of the

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and was made a Fellow. He was President of Section III (Mathematics and Physics and Chemistry) and of the whole Society from 1905 to 1906.

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