Francis Johnson (linguist)
Francis Johnson was a British linguist who taught Sanskrit, Telugu and Bengali at the East India Company College between 1824 and 1855. He compiled a comprehensive Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary, which he published in 1852.
As a young man, he travelled to Rome and Athens with Charles Lock Eastlake and Charles Barry and others, returning to England in 1824.
A nonconformist, he funded the construction in 1829 of a Congregationalist chapel at Hertford Heath, and its subsequent operation.
He also published
He married in 1857 and died in Hertford in 1876.
