Jasper Johns (Liberal politician)

Jasper Wilson Johns (1824 – 26 July 1891)[1] was a civil engineer, merchant, railway promoter and Liberal Party politician.

He was then involved in William Bird & Co. of London, a firm of iron merchants.

He was an active promoter of railways in Wales of which he was chairman or deputy chairman for many years until they were taken over by the London and North Western Railway.

His daughter Mabel married Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, jurist and writer.

[4] He died in 1891, at the age of 67[1] and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery in a grave he shares with his wife and son-in-law Francis Taylor Piggott.