He was educated at The Lodge School, well known as the cradle of cricket in Barbados, where he benefited from the coaching of Leslie Arthur "Bessie" Walcott.

Johnson was invited to the BCA trials in 1945 and in 1946 he was part of the Barbados team to Trinidad, but did not play.

However, he scored centuries against Combermere, Spartan and Wanderers,[1] and then migrated to England to train as a sugar industry engineer.

[2] Johnson played for the Swarkestone Cricket Club, and appeared for Derbyshire in 2nd XI matches in 1947 and 1948.

Johnson was a right-handed batsman and played 606 innings in 351 first-class matches to make 14,286 runs.