Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet (died 8 October 1727) of Sciennes and Westerhall was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons between 1707 and 1722.
Early life.
Johnstone was the second son of Sir James Johnstone of Westerhall, a member of the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland. His mother Margaret was the daughter of John Bannatyne of Corehouse in Lanarkshire. He married Henrietta Johnston, the
author of novels about the Old West
Scottish clan.
- Clan Johnstone, a Scottish clan, whose chief has the noble title Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
People with a variant form of the surname.
- William Johnstone Milne (1892–1917), Canadian World War I soldier
- William Johnstone Ritchie (1813 – 92), Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court
- George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist; introduced the term "electron"
Fictional people with the surname.
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