George Johnson (priest)
George Henry Sacheverell Johnson FRS (1808 โ 5 November 1881) was a British clergyman and academic who was Dean of Wells and a professor at the University of Oxford.
Life and career
Johnson studied at
Johnson was ordained into the
White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, a post he held for three years. He advocated reform of Oxford and its colleges, an unpopular stance which he believed scuppered his chances of becoming Provost (head) of his college, although he was appointed as a commissioner under the Oxford University Act 1854. In 1854, Johnson was appointed Dean of Wells, where his time was marred by a dispute about his unpopular decision to hold a parish position in Wells in addition to the deanery to supplement his income. He published Optical Investigations (1835), a book of sermons in 1857 and Science and Natural Religion: a Sermon (which went to two editions).[1]
In 1836 he served as one of two external examiners for the final examination for the degree of B.A. at the
University of Durham. This makes him one of the first two external examiners to serve in the UK.[3][4]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14881. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715โ1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ISBN 9783319767260.
- ^ Durham University Calendar 1842. p. 45.
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