James Johnson (1640-1704) was an academic in the last decades of the 17th century and the first of the 18th.
[1] Johnson was born in Rise, Yorkshire, and educated at Pocklington School.
He entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1655.
His predecessor as Master, Joshua Basset, a Catholic convert, had abandoned his post during the Glorious Revolution.
Johnson was Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1689 to 1690.