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Description: | p.1 A print of 'The Great House' at Olney, Buckinghamshire, where the Revd. Woolsey Johnson was born in 1696 and where the Revd. Robert Augustus Johnson, the father of General W.A. Johnson, was born in 1745.
pp.2-6 Genealogical information about the Johnsons of Olney and their connections, including the Chadertons of Oldham.
p.8 Details of the life of William, Earl of Craven (1609-1697), the ancestor of Anne Rebecca Johnson, the mother of General W.A. Johnson.
p.10 An engraving of Major General W.A. Johnson, M. P. 1840.
p.12 A newspaper obituary of Major-General W.A. Johnson, with a copy lying loose between the pages.
p.15 A list of the Johnsons who were patrons of Uppingham School.
p.16 A small painting of Witham Hall and a description of General Johnson's death.
pp.17-18 Paintings and drawings of Witham Hall and Witham Church 1863.
p.20 A drawing of the house at Olney, 1808.
pp.21-36 Notes on the children of General Johnson and their photographs taken about the time of the General's death.
pp.38-51 Copies of letters of condolence on the General's death, written mostly to his wife, 1863.
pp.52-64 Copies of prayers made by the General.
p.68 A drawing of Kingston Lisle, Buckinghamshire, the house of Edwin Martin Atkins who married the General's daughter, Mary Georgiana Johnson in 1862.
p.69 A copy of a letter written to her son George William Johnson by Jane, the wife of the Rev. Woolsey Johnson, 9 May 1750.
p.70 A copy of Jane Johnson's letter to the Headmaster of Uppingham School on the subject of the fees. 1758.
She complains of the high fees: 'it would be pretty near as reasonable to Demand above Twenty pounds a year for the Board of each of a Parcell of Hogs as a Parcell of School Boys, since the one would cost pretty near as much feeding and require almost as much waiting upon as the other generally meet with . . .'
p.71 Copy of a letter from Jane Johnson to her youngest son Charles Woolsey on his visiting relations. 14 June 1754.
pp.72-3 An extract from W. Strahan's 'History of the British Dominions in North America' about Isaac Johnson's sailing to New England with Governor Winthorpe in 1630 and of his death and that of his wife, Lady Arabella, a daughter of the Earl of Lincoln.
p.76 Pedigree of the Johnsons of Clipsham in the county of Rutland.
p.77 Pedigree of the Johnson of Milton Bryan.
p.78 An extract from Bowyer's 'Literary Anecdotes of Robert Johnson, Archdeacon of Leicester and the founder of Oakham and Uppingham schools.'
p.81 Notes on the conveyances of the manor of Witham, 1649-1717.
pp.83-6 'Brief analysis of the life of Lawrence Chaderton, D.D., first master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and translator of King James' Bible. A translation of Dr. Dillingham's manuscript in the Harleian collection.
pp.87-106 Blank.
p.107 A sermon preached at Witham-on-the-Hill, November 1863, the day after the funeral of Lieut. Gen. A. Johnson by K.E. Gretton, B.D., the Master of Stamford Grammar School.
p.110 Letter of condolence.
p.119 Letter to General Johnson on the death of his mother, 11 March 1816.
Loose at back:
a) Speech of General Johnson, M.P. against the Poor Law Amendment Act. 9 February 1838.
b) An unnamed sketch, probably of Kingston Lisle, Buckinghamshire.
c) A letter to Mrs. Johnson from her old servant M. Lellard, on the death of Captain Robert William Johnson at Portsmouth, 1855.
d) Copy of a note made by the Revd Robert Augustus Johnson on his marriage in 1773 and the death of his son in 1775.
e) A note on the births and deaths of the children of Anne Rebecca Ludford Taylor who married as her second husband, Robert Augustus Johnson.
f) Part of a letter from one of the Johnson descendants in Massachusetts enquiring about his ancestors.
g) A copy of the will of Daniel Johnson of Stamford, 29 February 1663.
h) Copy of a poem from an old Bible at Kingston Lisle, made in 1868.
i) Copy of lines on a memorial tablet to Robert William Johnson, died 1855.
j) A rough draft of (i).
k) A franked paper addressed to General Johnson, P.P.
Also loose in this volume, at page 26, is a sketch signed by E. M. Osborn, and an unsigned sketch possibly by the same artist. [See also Johnson/3/4]
[Emily Mary Osborn (1828-1925) was a Victorian painter with a similar style to the Pre-Raphaelites. She exhibited successfully at the Royal Academy for many years. Queen Victoria was amongst those who purchased her paintings. Osborn is now highly regarded a proto-feminist. From the 1850s, she was a member of the Society of Female Artists and associated with the Langham Place circle which advocated women?s rights, education and suffrage. Her paintings often address the position of women in a patriarchal society. In 2009, the Tate Gallery purchased ?Nameless & Friendless?, one of her best known paintings, for £300,000.
Sources: Tate website, Cherry: ?Woman, Art & Society?, Greer: ?The Obstacle Race?] | Temporal: | undated | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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