James Johnson (bishop of Worcester)

English prelate

For the African bishop, see James Johnson (Assistant Bishop of Western Equatorial Africa).

James Johnson, portrait at Hartlebury Castle Monument in Worcester Cathedral to James Johnson, Bishop of Worcester. Arms: See of Worcester impaling Johnson (Argent, a bend sable on a chief of the second three wool-packs of the first)[1]

James Johnson (1705 – 28 November 1774) was an English prelate, successively Bishop of Gloucester (1752–1759) and of Worcester (1759–1774).

## Life

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James Johnson was born in Melford, Suffolk, to James Johnson (a priest and author) and Anne Cuthbert. His grandfather was George Johnson MP, a judge and counsellor of Charles II. He was educated at Westminster School in London as a King's Scholar before matriculating at Christ Church, Oxford in 1724, graduating B.A. in 1728 (M.A. in 1731), and B.D. and D.D. in 1742.[2]

Ordained deacon and priest in 1731, Johnson became Second Master of Westminster School (1733–1748) and held the rectory of Turweston (1741–1744), then concurrently the rectory of Berkhampstead (1743–1759) and of Mixbury (1744–1759), and the vicarage of Watford (1744–1759).

In 1748 he was appointed a chaplain to King George II and canon residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1752 he was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester but was quickly embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of Jacobitism. Christopher Fawcett had gossiped to Lord Ravensworth that Johnson, Andrew Stone and William Murray had drunk to the health of the Pretender in their youth. The allegations were brought all the way to the House of Lords and were subsequently thrown out.

Johnson was translated to the see of Worcester in 1759 and made many alterations to Hartlebury Castle, the residence of the Bishops of Worcester, out of his own pocket. He was also a patron of Benjamin West, commissioning "The Return of the Prodigal Son".

Johnson died in 1774 from a fall from his horse in Stall Street, Bath. There is a monument to him in Worcester Cathedral.

## References

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1. ^ A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER FIRST PUBLISHED in 1894 [1]
2. ^ Foster, Joseph. "Johnson, James (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses  – via Wikisource.

* "Johnson, James (1705-1774)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Church of England titles

Preceded by

Martin Benson

|  Bishop of Gloucester
1752–1759  | Succeeded by

William Warburton

Preceded by

Isaac Maddox

|  Bishop of Worcester
1759–1774  | Succeeded by

Brownlow North

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Bishops of Gloucester and of Gloucester and Bristol

Gloucester (1541)|

* John Wakeman
* John Hooper
* See dissolved, 1552 & re-erected, 1554
* James Brooks
* Richard Cheyney
* John Bullingham
* Godfrey Goldsborough
* Thomas Ravis
* Henry Parry
* Giles Thomson
* Miles Smith
* Godfrey Goodman
* Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
* William Nicholson
* John Pritchett
* Robert Frampton
* Edward Fowler
* Richard Willis
* Joseph Wilcocks
* Elias Sydall
* Martin Benson
* James Johnson
* William Warburton
* James Yorke
* Samuel Hallifax
* Richard Beadon
* George Huntingford
* Henry Ryder
* Christopher Bethell
* James Henry Monk

Gloucester and Bristol|

* James Henry Monk
* Charles Baring
* William Thomson
* Charles Ellicott

Gloucester (1897)|

* Charles Ellicott
* Edgar Gibson
* Arthur Headlam
* Clifford Woodward
* Wilfred Askwith
* Basil Guy
* John Yates
* Peter Ball
* David Bentley
* Michael Perham
* Martyn Snow (acting)
* Rachel Treweek

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Bishops of Worcester

Early medieval|

* Bosel
* Oftfor
* Egwin of Evesham
* Wilfrith (I)
* Milred
* Waermund
* Tilhere
* Heathured
* Denebeorht
* Heahbeorht
* Ealhhun
* Werferth
* Æthelhun
* Wilfrith (II)
* Koenwald
* Dunstan
* Oswald
* Ealdwulf

High medieval|

* Wulfstan (I)
* Leofsige
* Beorhtheah
* Lyfing
* Ælfric Puttoc
* Lyfing
* Ealdred
* Wulfstan (II)
* Samson
* Theulf
* Simon
* John de Pageham
* Alured
* Roger
* Baldwin of Forde
* William of Northall
* Robert FitzRalph
* Henry de Sully
* John of Coutances
* Mauger
* Randulf of Evesham
* Walter de Gray
* Sylvester
* William de Blois
* Walter de Cantilupe
* Nicholas of Ely
* Godfrey Giffard

Late medieval|

* John St German
* William Gainsborough
* Walter Reynolds
* Walter Maidstone
* Thomas Cobham
* Wulstan Bransford
* Adam Orleton
* Simon Montacute
* Thomas Hemenhale
* Wulstan Bransford
* John of Thoresby
* Reginald Brian
* John Barnet
* William Whittlesey
* William Lenn
* Walter Lyghe
* Henry Wakefield
* Robert Tideman of Winchcombe
* Richard Clifford
* Thomas Peverel
* Philip Morgan
* Thomas Polton
* Thomas Brunce
* Thomas Bourchier
* John Carpenter ("Bishop of Worcester and Westbury")
* John Alcock
* Robert Morton
* Giovanni de' Gigli

Early modern|

* Silvestro de' Gigli
* Girolamo Ghinucci
* Hugh Latimer
* John Bell
* Nicholas Heath
* John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester
* Nicholas Heath
* Richard Pate
* Edwin Sandys
* Nicholas Bullingham
* John Whitgift
* Edmund Freke
* Richard Fletcher
* Thomas Bilson
* Gervase Babington
* Henry Parry
* John Thornborough
* John Prideaux
* Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
* George Morley
* John Gauden
* John Earle
* Robert Skinner
* Walter Blandford
* James Fleetwood
* William Thomas
* Edward Stillingfleet
* William Lloyd
* John Hough
* Isaac Maddox
* James Johnson
* Brownlow North
* Richard Hurd

Late modern|

* Folliott Cornewall
* Robert Carr
* Henry Pepys
* Henry Philpott
* John Perowne
* Charles Gore
* Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs
* Ernest Pearce
* Arthur Perowne
* William Wilson Cash
* Mervyn Charles-Edwards
* Robin Woods
* Philip Goodrich
* Peter Selby
* John Inge

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