Three Baronetcies have been created for persons with the surname Johnson: one of New York in 1755 in the

Baronetage of Great Britain Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

, and then one of Bath (1818) and one of Dublin (1909), both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2010 the Johnson baronetcy of Bath is dormant, and that of Dublin is extinct.

Johnson baronetcy of New York (1755)

The Johnson Baronetcy, of New York in North America, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 November 1755 for the soldier William Johnson. A descendant of the O'Neill dynasty, his family name was originally MacShane (

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: ''Mac Seáin''), of which Johnson is a translation. The baronetcy was awarded for his victories at Crown Point and the

Battle of Lake George The Battle of Lake George was fought on 8 September 1755, in the north of the Province of New York. It was part of a campaign by the British to expel the French from North America, in the French and Indian War. On one side were 1,584 French, Can ...

earlier that year.

Johnson baronets of New York

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet of New York ( – 11 July 1774), was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Ireland. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Royal Na ...

(1715–1774). His nephew,

Guy Johnson Guy Johnson ( 1740 – 5 March 1788) was an Irish military officer and diplomat. He served on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War, having migrated to the Province of New York as a young man and worked with his uncle, Sir Wi ...

, was a distinguished soldier. *

Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet Brigadier General Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet (5 November 1741 – 4 January 1830) was an American-born military officer, magistrate, landowner and colonial official in the British Indian Department who fought as a Loyalist during the American ...

(1742–1830) was a loyalist leader during the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...

. His son, Colonel Charles Christopher Johnson, had a son, John Ormsby Johnson, who was a vice-admiral. *Sir Adam Gordon Johnson, 3rd Baronet (1781–1843) * Sir William George Johnson, 4th Baronet (1830–1908) *Sir Edward Gordon Johnson, 5th Baronet (1867–1957) *Sir John Paley Johnson, 6th Baronet (1907–1975) * Sir Peter Colpoys Paley Johnson, 7th Baronet (1930–2003). *Sir (Colpoys) Guy Johnson, 8th Baronet (born 1965) The heir apparent is Colpoys William Johnson (born 1993). All Johnson Baronets of New York from Sir Adam onward are, through his mother Ann Watts, descendants of the Schuyler family, the Delancey family, and the Van Cortlandt family of

British North America British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestow ...

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Johnson baronetcy of Bath (1818)

The Johnson Baronetcy, of Bath, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 December 1818 for Henry Johnson, a colonel in the 5th Regiment and Governor of

Ross Castle Ross Castle ( ga, Caisleán an Rois) is a 15th-century tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It is the ancestral home of the Chiefs of the Clan O'Donoghue, later associated wit ...

. He was the younger brother of Sir John Johnson-Walsh, 1st Baronet, of Ballykilcavan (see Johnson-Walsh Baronets). The presumed seventh Baronet never successfully established his claim to the title and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. Likewise, as of 13 June 2007 the presumed eighth Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy dormant since 1986. For more information, follow thi
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Johnson baronets of Bath

Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet Major-General Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet, (1 January 1748 – 18 March 1835) was an Anglo-Irish general in the British Army. Life He was the second son of Allen Johnson of Kilternan, County Dublin, and his wife Olivia, daughter of John Walsh ...

(1748–1835) *Sir Henry Allen Johnson, 2nd Baronet (1785–1860). Fought with distinction in the

Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain ...

. His sixth son, Sir Charles Cooper Johnson, was a general in the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

. Charles Cooper's son, Eliot Philipse Johnson, was a brigadier-general in the British Army, and the father of the presumed seventh Baronet. * Sir Henry Franks Frederic Johnson, 3rd Baronet (1819–1883) * Sir Henry Allen William Johnson, 4th Baronet (1855–1944). Brigadier-general in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. * Sir Henry Allen Beaumont Johnson, 5th Baronet (1887–1965) * Sir Victor Philipse Hill Johnson, 6th Baronet (1905–1986) *Robin Eliot Johnson, presumed 7th Baronet (1929–1989) *Patrick Eliot Johnson, presumed 8th Baronet (born 1955) The presumed

heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...

to the baronetcy is Richard Eliot Johnson (born 1983), eldest son of the presumed 8th Baronet.

Johnson baronetcy of Dublin (1909)

The Johnson Baronetcy, of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 November 1909 for the Irish lawyer and politician William Moore Johnson. The title became extinct on his death in 1919.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1755 establishments in Great Britain 1818 establishments in the United Kingdom