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588  and First-Lieutenant, to the 46, and  16, Capts. Robt. Wauchope and Mich. Quin, fitting at Chatham and Sheerness – and, 9 May, 1837, to the 104, Capts. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy and Sir John Hill, guard-ship at the latter place. He has been on half-pay since 1838.

Lieut. Johnston married, in 1835, Louisa Drusilla Sidney, youngest daughter of the late Jas. Cummings, Esq., R.N.

 JOHNSTON. 

, born in Nov. 1803, is maternal grandson of the late Sir Geo. Richardson, Bart.

This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1817, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo on the coast of Africa; was next employed, between Oct. 1818 and March, 1825 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), in the 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and 46, Capt. Henry Prescott, chiefly as Midshipman, on the Home, Mediterranean, and South American stations; and, in Nov. of the latter year, became Mate of the  10, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Viscount Ingestrie, similarly employed. He was promoted for his services in the 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827; and was subsequently appointed – 1 1 May, 1833, to the 78, Capt. Arthur FanShawe, off Lisbon – 24 Feb. 1835 (after several months of half-pay), to the  52, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel – 20 Oct. 1836, to the 74, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, John Toup Nicolas, and Edw. Barnard, employed until Nov. 1839 on the Channel, Lisbon, West India, and Halifax stations – 10 Oct. 1840, to the 104, flag-ship of Sir Henry Digby at the Nore – 11 Sept. 1841, as First, to the  42, Capt. Chas. Hope, fitting for Chatham – and, 13 Dec. following, to the 50, Capt. Lord John Hay. He invalided home from the North America and West India station in June, 1842, and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Johnston married, 25 April, 1843, Jane Dunlop, daughter of the late Capt. Thos. Hamilton, of Dowan, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Geo. Louis Augustus Colquhoun, Bart. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 JOHNSTON. 

entered the Navy, 16 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Geo. Murray, John Manley, and Sir Fras. Laforey. In that ship, after serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, off Ferrol and Rochefort, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and on 21 Oct. 1805 was present in the battle of Trafalgar. He removed, in Oct. 1809, to the 98, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, who, on 4 of the next Dec, nominated him Lieutenant of the  80, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin – an act which the Admiralty confirmed by commission dated 16 Feb. 1810. Being superseded from the in Nov. of the latter year, Mr. Johnston was subsequently appointed – 23 Sept. 1811, to the  sloop, Capts. Benj. Crispin and Geo. Canning, employed off the Texel and in the Mediterranean – in Jan. 1813, to the command of the schooner, stationed in the Archipelago under the orders of Capt. John Clavell – in Aug. 1813, again to the, Capts. Rowland Mainwairing and Thos. Forster, off the coast of Syria – and, 3 Dec. 1814, to the 10, Capt. Jonathan Christian, in the Downs. He has been on half-pay since July, 1815.

 JOHNSTON. 

entered the Navy, 21 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Temple; attained the rating of Midshipman in Nov. of the same year; and, between June, 1808, when he returned home from a voyage to the Brazils and the Cape of Good Hope, and July, 1814, was successively employed, in the  74, Capt. Ross Donnelly,  36, Capt. Wm. Granger, 74, Capts. John Sprat Rainier and Wm. Waller, and 74, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, on the Home, Lisbon, Cadiz, Mediterranean, and Bermuda stations. He then assumed command, with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, of the advice-vessel, in which he served, on the American coast and in the West Indies, until the close of the war with the United States. He was promoted to his present rank in his former ship, the, Capt. Alex. Skene, 15 Feb. 1815; and in Feb. 1816, after having re-visited the Mediterranean and West Indies, was placed on half-pay. He has not been since employed. – Fred. Dufaur.

 JOHNSTONE. 

entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Joseph Pearce, and, after serving for some time on the Home station, proceeded to the coast of North America, where he was present with the squadron in Penobscot Bay at the capture of the town of Castine and the destruction of the U.S. frigate John Adams, in Sept. 1814. Becoming Midshipman, soon afterwards, of the 74, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he attended in that ship the ill-fated expedition against New Orleans; and, on her return to England in the summer of 1815, he became attached, as a Supernumerary, to the  98, Capt. Edm. Boger, lying at Spitbead. In July, 1818, after he had been employed for a period of more than two years and a half in the North Sea and West Indies, in the 18, Capts. Robt. Lisle Coulson and Edw. Curzon, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 36, Capt. John Mackellar, to which frigate he was confirmed on 20 of the following Nov. He was paid off 21 Dec. 1818; and was lastly, from 6 Dec. 1824 until about the close of 1826, employed in the  74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.

Lieut. Johnstone is married, and has issue.

 JOHNSTONE. 

entered the Navy 29 June, 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 18 Aug. 1831; and was subsequently appointed – 23 Jan. and 8 May, 1833, to the 78, and  120, flag-ships of Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean – 16 July, 1834, to the  50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, with whom he returned home from Lisbon and was paid off in Nov. 1836 – 30 Jan. 1837, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 7 Dec. 1837, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the 18, Capt. Henry Wm. Craufurd, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he was superseded a few months afterwards – and, 9 Aug. 1841, in a similar capacity, to the steam-vessel, Capt. John Russell, lying at Chatham. He was advanced to his present rank on 23 of the following Nov., but has not been since afloat.

 JOHNSTONE. 

entered the Navy, in April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Chas. Adam, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship and, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Chas. Adam, until Jan. 1814 – assisting, in the  (independently of a participation in many particular services), at the defence of 