Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot.
His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxembourg. Uncle to Dennis Wheatley's second wife, the author put Johnstone, as "a courtly diplomat of the old school", into his novel 'The Second Seal' (1950).
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Alan Johnstone
This Boat House was given to the Club by Gilbert Johnstone, the youngest of 9...
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine (1679 - 1738) in 1719, though the street was then known as Fawdon Lane, Charles Street. The school provided an education for local...
Writer. Born Newbury. His first book 'A Bear Called Paddington' was published in 1958. There have been 23 Paddington books. Also wrote for adults.
See the Evelina Children's Hospital for more information.
2012 and we are delighted to report that this building is still a day nursery: the "Royal Free Hospital Staff Day Nursery".
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
Sir Francis Galton, 1822-1911, explorer, statistician, founder of eugenics, lived here for fifty years.
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