Author: Johnson, Charles Henry
Biography:
JOHNSON, Charles Henry (1787-1813: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Astbury, Cheshire, and baptised at nearby St. Peter’s Congleton on 24 May 1787, the son of John Johnson and his wife Ann Lowe, who had married in 1785. He was educated at Raine’s, Charterhouse, and Brasenose College, Oxford (matric. 1805, BA 1809, MA 1812), where there is memorial floor tablet. In 1809 he won the prize for English verse with the poem listed here, his only known publication. He died on 12 Mar. 1813 and was buried in the antechapel at Brasenose. There is also a memorial at St. Mary’s, Oxford. He had made a will in September the previous year, with his sister Eliza Ann as executrix, and probably knew he was seriously ill. (ancestry.co.uk 22 May 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 May 2022; R. L. Arrowsmith, Charterhouse Register 1769-1872 [1974], 213; C. B. Heberden, Brasenose College Register 1509-1909 [1909] 1: 417, 2: 176; GM June 1809, 527; OUCH 27 May 1809, 20 Mar. 1813) AA