General Sir Edwin Beaumont Johnson GCB CIE (4 July 1825 – 18 June 1893) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General in India.

Educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary, Johnson was commissioned into the Bengal artillery on 10 June 1842.

[1] He fought at the Battle of Ferozeshah in December 1845 and the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War as well as the Battle of Chillianwala in January 1849 and the Battle of Gujrat in February 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.

[1] He served as assistant adjutant-general at the Siege of Lucknow in Autumn 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.

He went on to be Military Member of the Governor-General of India's Council in March 1877[2] and Director-General of Military Education at the War Office in December 1884 before retiring in January 1891.