Schoolmaster at Grasmere; he was introduced by Wordsworth to Dr. Andrew Bell, the inventor of the Madras system of education which he introduced in a model school in London (1812).

REFERENCES TO William Johnson:

Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 11 June 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 10 March 1827 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)