Charles Cooper Johnson


Sir Charles Cooper Johnson was a senior British Indian Army officer.
Johnson was the sixth son of Sir Henry Johnson, 2nd Baronet, and Charlotte Elizabeth Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse and Henrietta Griffiths. He was a grandson of Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet and great-grandson of Frederick Philipse III of New York. He was educated at the East India Company Military Seminary in Addiscombe.
He was commissioned into the 33rd Bengal Native Infantry. He later transferred into the Bengal Staff Corps, which was amalgamated into the Indian Staff Corps in 1861. He was promoted to Major on 7 June 1864. In 1877, while holding the rank of Colonel, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was promoted to the rank of full General on 1 April 1894. Johnson was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1900 Birthday Honours.

Family

Johnson married on 4 January 1860 Jemima Anne Frances Martin, daughter of Rev George Martin by Lady Charlotte Sophia Eliot, second daughter of the 2nd Earl of Saint Germans. They had five sons:
  • Hon. Brig.-Gen. Charles Edward, married in 1899 Susan Ellen, daughter of Col. Charles Henry Ewart
  • Maj. Arthur Cyril Beaumont, married in 1901 Roberta Joanna, daughter of Robert Pottinger RN, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets
  • Hon. Brig.-Gen. Elliot Philipse , married in 1892 Mary, daughter of Surgn-Maj-Gen James Inkson; grandfather of Sir Robin Eliot Johnson, 7th Bt
  • Percy Steward, died in childhood
  • Allen Victor , married in 1919 Angela Mary, widow of Brig.-Gen. Paul Aloysius Kenna and daughter of Hubert Aloysius Tichborne Hibbert