David Landale Johnston

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David Landale Johnston
Born Q1 1870
Boston
Died 9 December 1949 (aged 79)
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Education Boston Grammar School; Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Employer Indian Civil Service
Notable work(s) Parry Gold Medal winner 1886
Spouse Mary Violet Marsden; Elizabeth Rogerson Currie
Children David Maurice Landale Johnston
Parents David Johnston; Susan
Relatives Grace Johnston, Patrick W Johnston, John Alexander Johnston, Thomas Kenneth Johnston, Janet A Johnston, Edward H Johnston (siblings)

David Landale Johnston was educated at Boston Grammar School. He won the Parry Gold Medal in 1886, and also served as Head Boy.

His father was a bank accountant in Boston and later bank manager in Spalding.

Johnston was admitted pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1886. He was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1899, becoming district and sessions judge in 1908.

At the time of his death in 1949 he lived at Hyde Lodge, Chalford, Gloucestershire.[1]

References

  1. Hyde Lodge - Historic England

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