- Charles John Johnston
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Charles John Johnston (1845–1918) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1890, the Jubilee year.
He represented the Te Aro electorate from 1881 to 1887, when he resigned. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1891 to 1918, and the Speaker from 1915 to 1918.
He was born 11 October 1845 in Wellington, the son of merchant John Johnston. He was educated at Wellington Commercial and Grammar School, and was later educated in England at the Catholic College of St. Mary in Derbyshire, and at Kensington Grammar School in London. He returned to NZ in 1864 and entered Johnston & Co.
He married Alice Margaret Featherston, daughter of Isaac Earl Featherston, at Wellington on 12 Jan 1871. He died in Wellington 13 June 1918.
A brother Walter Woods Johnston was also an MP.
References
- No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council) includes a paragraph and a portrait or photo for each mayor.
- New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
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