Charles Christopher Johnson KLS (29 October 1789 – 30 September 1854) was a British soldier.

Early life

Johnson was born on 29 October 1789. He was the fifth son of eighteen children born to Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet and his wife, Mary Nicoll "Polly" (

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Watts) Johnson (1751–1815), who was known as Lady Johnson. His father was a

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leader during the

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who were permanently exiled to

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in 1783. His paternal grandparents were Colonel

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, and his wife, Catherine Weissenberg, a Palatine German immigrant. His maternal grandparents were Anne (née DeLancey) Watts (a daughter of Stephen Delancey and descendant of the Van Cortlandt family) and the Hon. John Watts, President of the King's Council, of New York and a descendant of the

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Career

Johnson gained the rank of

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in the

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and served as Quartermaster-General in Ireland. He was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Lion and the Sun of

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. He was

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, property which he inherited from his father.

Personal life

On 8 January 1818, he married Susan Colpoys (d. 1875), daughter of Vice Admiral Sir

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of Northbrook House in Hampshire. Together, they were the parents of six children: * William Johnson (b. 1821), who died without issue. * John Ormsby Johnson (1822–1881), a Vice-Admiral who married Edith Renira Twyford, daughter of Rev. Charles Edward Twyford, in 1852. * Charles Turquand Johnson (1825–1851), who studied at

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for five years. * Maria Bowes Johnson (–1871), who married Rev. William Bell Christian of Ewanrigg Hall, son of John Christian, a Deemster of the

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. * Edward Colpoys Johnson (1835–1900), who married Barbara Williamson, daughter of Rev. James Williamson, in 1863. After her death, he married Ada Olivia Pinto, daughter of Edward Pinto, in 1874. * Mary Anne Susan Johnson (–1923), who married Henry Fraser Curwen of

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, the

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. Johnson died on 30 September 1854 and his widow died on 23 February 1875.

Descendants

Through his son John, he was the grandfather of Frederick Colpoys Ormsby Johnson (1858–1932) and Captain Robert Warren Johnson (1868–1914), who married Grace Isobel Paley (fourth daughter of Algernon Herbert Paley) father of Lt. Col. Sir John Paley Johnson, 6th Baronet (1907–1975), who inherited Charles' father's baronetcy from the descendants of his elder brother, John Johnson, including Sir William Johnson, 4th Baronet.

References

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