James Johnson was born in Ballinderry, County Antrim, and was apprenticed to an apothecary in Portglenone, County Antrim. After a stay of two years in Belfast he went to London and entered the navy as a surgeon. He served from 1800 to 1814 and afterwards started a medical practice in Portsmouth, where he began The Medico-Chirurgical Review. He also edited the British and Foreign Medical Review from 1836 to 1844. He served as physician-in-ordinary to William IV. He died in Brighton. [Biography by his son 1846]

Born:	February 1777
Died:	10 October 1845