In 1892 he put forward a private member's bill in favour of women's suffrage, which failed narrowly.
[5] Johnson stole the jewellery while she was travelling by train from Paris to London with her husband, (Rollit), her brother, his wife and the Duchess's footman and maid.
He had a daughter; Emma Rollit, who married a Captain Richard Todd Ellison of the 2nd Life Guards at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London on 7 November 1886.
It is now preserved at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, and carries a brass plaque bearing the name.
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