Personal Life
As a teenager Johnson soon become fascinated by speed and joined the Melton Car Club with two boyhood friends. Johnson enjoyed the lifestyle of cars and "pacey women". Although he had many early interests, Johnson would later settle and add to his family. During a period of leave, on 14 November 1942, he married Pauline Ingate and they had two sons; Michael and Chris, born 1 December 1946. During the war Pauline worked for the Norwich Fire Service. After Pauline's death, Johnson lived with his partner Janet Partridge.
On 30 January 2001, Johnson, aged 85 years, died from cancer. A memorial service took place on 25 April 2001 at St Clement Danes and the hyms Jerusalem and I Vow to Thee, My Country were played. His children scattered his ashes at his Chatsworth Estate in East Derbyshire. The only memorial was a bench dedicated to him at the estate on his favourite fishing spot. The inscription reads; In Memory of a Fisherman.
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