| Administrative History | Alex Bowman Johnston (1884-1966)was born at Heighington , Co. Durham and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and St John's College Cambridge. His first appointment was as curate of St Anne's , Bermondsey in 1907. He was ordained the following year and accepted by the CMS as a missionary to north India. His first missionary posting was to St Paul's College , Calcutta, a post he held until 1919. During his time there in 1915 he married Agnes May Nicholls. In 1921 he was transferred to Nobel College, Masulipatam, South India and stayed until 1934 when he returned to England and resigned from service with the CMS. He died in Cambridge 1966.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905), CMS archives; unpublished manuscript addition (Men 1908-1910) |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS May 1990 |