William Percival Johnson

William Percival Johnson (12 March 1854 in St Helens, Isle of Wight – October 1928 in Liuli, Tanganyika) was an Anglican missionary to Nyasaland.

[4] Together with another Universities' Mission missionary, Arthur Glossop (1867-1949), he also translated the Book of Common Prayer into Chinyanja (1897, revised 1909).

[7] He died at Liuli, Mbinga District, on the shores of what is today the Tanzanian side of Lake Malawi in 1928,[8] the site of the largest mission in the Ruvuma region of Tanzania.

Local demands for his canonization were referred by letter to the Lambeth Conference in 1958, where a compromise that he was regarded as "Blessed" was offered.

The Anglican Diocese of South West Tanganyika continues to regard Johnson as a saint.