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Arthur Peters Johnson

bap. 1853 d. 1894

Soldier. Son of Henry Johnson (1802/3–81) and Elizabeth Maria Johnson of Shrewsbury. Educated at Shrewsbury School. Lieutenant, Shropshire militia, 1871; lieutenant, Eighty-seventh Regiment, 1873. Retired and became a sheep farmer in South Africa.

Sources

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 July 2018)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/2772/25/3)

Shrewsbury School register, p. 189

Bibliography

Shrewsbury School register: Shrewsbury School register. 1734–1908. Edited by J. E. Auden. Oswestry: Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co., Caxton Press. 1909.

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