Author: Richard Locke Johnson
Author: Richard Locke Johnson (1832–1882)
Biography: Richard Locke Johnson was born around 1832 in Ireland. His early life cannot be traced. He seems to have devoted himself to developing gas works, including being awarded a few patents. However, by the 1860s, he was qualified as a surgeon and moved to London to practice. While there, he published two books, the anonymous Queer Customers (1866) and the novel Brilliant Prospects (1870). The latter earned a scathing review from the Spectator. In 1873, he married Caroline Annie Kearney. He died on 17 August 1882 in London.
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Fiction Titles:
- Queer Customers: What They Did, and What They Didn't. Promiscuously Set Down by their Contemporary Bartle O'Barry. 1 vol. London: Routledge, 1866.
- Brilliant Prospects. 1 vol. London: W. Kent and Co., 1870.