About Robert Johnston
Lived 1783 – 1839 (aged 55–56). Robert Johnston was a businessperson and writer.
Robert Johnston (1783–1839) was a plantation owner in Jamaica and an investor in the London & Greenwich Railway.
Life He was the son of Alexander Johnston (died 1786), owner of the Murphy's Penn estate in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, and his wife Elizabeth Collett Gilbert. He went on a European Grand Tour towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, after schooling in Aberdeen.
Later Johnston owned the Harmony Hill estate in Jamaica, for which he received compensation.
Johnston was one of the founders of the Southampton and London Railway and Dock Company, in 1831, with George Walter, and Abel Rous Dottin, also from Jamaica and a relation. The company failed. He had had earlier business associations with Walter.
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Jamaican politician 1783–1839
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Robert Johnston was a businessperson and writer.
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