Charles Johnston (priest)

Charles Francis Harding Johnston (b Barnstaple, 6 October 1842 -d Warrington 22 August 1925)[1] was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1888 until 1890.[2]

Johnston was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge; and ordained in 1867.[3] His first post after Graduation was with the Inland Revenue after which he was a master at Trinity College, Glenalmond from 1867 to 1868. Moving to India he was Chaplain of HEICS and Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay before his time as Archdeacon[4] and Vicar of Headington Quarry[5] afterwards.[6]

References
  1. "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 25 August 1925. p. 1.
  2. ‘JOHNSTON, Ven. Charles Francis Harding’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 March 2015
  3. "GENERAL ORDINATIONS". Morning Post. No. 29339. London, England. 23 December 1867. p. 3.
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1908 p 776 London, Herbert Cox,1908
  5. "ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS". Yorkshire Herald. No. 12631. York, England. 27 November 1891. p. 6.
  6. "Vicars of the three older Headington parishes". Headington History. Retrieved 31 January 2021.


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