Thomas Johnson (scholar)


Thomas Johnson was an English cleric and academic, a moralist writer.

Life

Johnson was a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, who was senior university taxor in 1732; and later chaplain at Whitehall Palace. He died in July 1737.

Works

He was one of the four editors of Robert Estienne's Latin Thesaurus, 4 vols. 1734–5; the others were Edmund Law, John Taylor, and Sandys Hutchinson. In 1735 he published an edition of Samuel Pufendorf's De Officio Hominis et Civis, London; other editions, 1737, 1748, 1758. His other writings are: