Henry Johnson

Who was Henry Johnson?

The Rev Henry Frank Johnson was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th.

He was born 17 December 1834, youngest son of Colonel Johnson of Walbury, Great Hallingbury. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1856 to 1858 he was a Cornet in the Royal Dragoons after which he studied for ordination at Wells Theological College. Following a curacy at Richmond, Surrey he was Vicar of High Wych, Sawbridgeworth and then Rector of Chelmsford. After this he was Archdeacon of Essex, before being appointed Bishop of Colchester in 1895. He remained Bishop of Colchester until his death in 1908.

In December 1901 he was appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Essex Imperial Yeomanry.