James Johnson (bishop of Worcester)

James Johnson (1705 – 28 November 1774) was an English prelate, successively Bishop of Gloucester (1752–1759) and of Worcester (1759–1774).

He was educated at Westminster School in London as a King's Scholar before matriculating at Christ Church, Oxford in 1724, graduating B.A.

In 1748 he was appointed a chaplain to King George II and canon residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral.

In 1752 he was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester but was quickly embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of Jacobitism.

Christopher Fawcett had gossiped to Lord Ravensworth that Johnson, Andrew Stone and William Murray had drunk to the health of the Pretender in their youth.

James Johnson, portrait at Hartlebury Castle
Monument in Worcester Cathedral to James Johnson, Bishop of Worcester. Arms: See of Worcester impaling Johnson ( Argent, a bend sable on a chief of the second three wool-packs of the first ) [ 1 ]