George Randall Johnson

George Randall Johnson (7 November 1833 – 24 November 1919) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, and a notable cricket player in his younger days. Life Johnson was the second son of the Reverend Richard Johnson, rector of Lavenham, Suffolk. His older brother was Richard Cubitt Johnson who played cricket for Cambridge in 1850 and died while an undergraduate of typhoid fever in 1851. Johnson attended school in Bury St Edmunds and was admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1853, graduating with a B.A. in 1857 and an M.A. in 1861. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1861. Like his brother, he played cricket for Cambridge University and was captain in 1855. He also played for Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire) and for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).