Richard Cubitt Johnson (13 October 1829 – May 1851) was an English cricketer who played in two matches for Cambridge University that are now considered to have been first-class.
[2] He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and at Clare College, Cambridge.
[2] He was followed to Cambridge and into the cricket team there by his younger brother, George Randall Johnson – whose son, Peter Randall Johnson, took the same path 50 years later and was then a famous Somerset cricketer.
Johnson played cricket for Cambridge University in two matches, one each at home and away, against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1850, batting as a middle-order batsman.
[3] Johnson died suddenly at Cambridge from typhoid fever while still an undergraduate; his close friend Edmund Keble White, who had been at school with him and was at Trinity College, Cambridge – their fathers had been fellows at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge – also died in the same typhoid outbreak.