WILLIAM

See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

JOHNSON

See also:

• WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY (1823-1892)

CORY (1823-1892)  , English school-master and author, son of Charles Johnson of Torrington, Devon-shire, was born on the 9th of January 1823 . He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge . At Cambridge he gained the chancellor's medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844 . In 1845, after graduating at the university, he was made an assistant master at Eton, where he remained for some twenty-six years . He has been called " the most brilliant Eton tutor of his day." He had a great influence on his pupils, and he defended the Etonian system against the criticism of Matthew James Higgins . In 1872, having inherited an estate at Halsdon and assumed the name of Cory, he left Eton . He married late in life, and after four years spent in Madeira he settled in 1882 at Hampstead . He died on the 11th of June 1892 . He proved his genuine lyrical power in Ionica (1858), which was republished with some additional poems in 1891 . He also produced Lucretilis (1871), a work on the writing of Latin verses; lophon (1873), on Greek Iambics; and Guide to Modern History from 1815 to 1835 (1882) . Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory, which contains much paradoxical and suggestive criticism, were edited by F.W . Cornish and published by private subscription in 1897 .

His

elder brother, Charles Wellington Johnson Furse (1821-190o), who, on the death of his father in 1854, took the name of Furse, was canon and archdeacon of Westminster from 1894 till his death . The artist Charles Wellington Furse, A.R.A . (1868-1904), was a son of Archdeacon Furse .