Charles Alexander Johns
1811–74
Natural history writer, clergyman, and schoolteacher. Second master of Helston Grammar School from 1831; headmaster, 1844–9. BA, Trinity College, Dublin, 1841. Ordained deacon, 1841; priest, 1842. Curate of Yarncombe, Devon, 1841–2; of Portleven, 1844–9; of Beenham, near Newbury, 1849–56. Opened a boys’ preparatory school at Chipperfield, near Rickmansworth, 1856, and later a private school for boys at Winton House, Winchester. Founding member and president of the Winchester Literary and Scientific Society. Author of Flowers of the field (1851), and of a number of other botanical works. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1836.
Sources
Crockford’s clerical directory
ODNB.
Bibliography
Crockford’s clerical directory: The clerical directory, a biographical and statistical book of reference for facts relating to the clergy and the church. Crockford’s clerical directory etc. London: John Crockford [and others]. 1858–1900.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
