Christopher Johnson or Jonson (1536?–1597) was an English physician, educator and Neo-Latin poet.
[1] In 1560 Johnson was recommended to Archbishop Matthew Parker by Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and appointed to the headmastership of Winchester College.
He was granted the degree of Bachelor of Medicine at Oxford, with licence to practise, 14 December 1569, and proceeded M.D.
He published Ranarum et murium pugna, Latina versione donata, ex Homero, London, 1580, and wrote three poems in connection with Winchester, Ortus atque vita Gul.
[1] In 1564 Johnson edited and had printed for the use of his scholars two orations delivered at Louvain by Richard White of Basingstoke, De circulo Artium et Philosophiæ, and De Eloquentiâ et Cicerone.’ In 1568 White dedicated to him a short Latin dissertation on an ancient epitaph (Ælia Lælia Crispis.
[1] Johnson's only medical work was a Counsel against the Plague, or any other Infectious Disease, with a Question, Whether a man for preservation may be purged in the Dog-days or No?, London, 1577.