Johnson, George Henry Sacheverell

Johnson, George Henry Sacheverell an eminent Anglican clergyman and mathematician, was born at Keswick, Northumberland, about 1808. He graduated from Queen's College, Oxford, in 1828, obtained several scholarships and a tutorship therein, became professor of astronomy in 1839, of moral philosophy from 1842 to 1845, preacher at Whitehall in 1852, dean of Wells in 1854, and died November 6, 1881. He published a Treatise on Optics (1836): — Sermons (1857): — and wrote the annotations on the Psalms in the Speaker's Commentary.