Alexander Keith Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish geographer and cartographer; there is no recent “news” about him since he lived and died in the 1800s. However, there have been contemporary items mentioning his legacy, such as auction news about a Royal Geographical Society medal awarded to him in 1871. If you’d like, I can pull the latest reliable sources for any new discoveries or discussions related to his work or his son who carried on the family atlas publishing business.
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- Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871) was a prominent geographer and mapmaker, known for major atlases and gazetteers. He died in 1871 in Yorkshire and is memorialized in Edinburgh.[3][7]
- His son, Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879), continued the family publishing business and participated in exploration missions before his death. There are biographical notes and references detailing these explorations and their outcomes.[1][8][3]
- A modern news item notes an auction sale of the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal awarded to the elder Johnston in 1871, illustrating ongoing public interest in his legacy.[5]
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Alexander Keith Johnston, 1804–71, Scottish cartographer and geographer royal of Scotland. He issued many notable atlases, maps, and gazetteers, including The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial, and Political Geography (1843), The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena (1848), The Dictionary of Geography (1850; known as Johnston's Gazetteer), and The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography (1861). A son, Alexander Keith Johnston, 1844–79, carried on the work of the map-publishing house founded by...
www.encyclopedia.comThe Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal was awarded to Alexander Keith Johnston in 1871.
news.stv.tvAlexander Keith Johnston FRSE FRGS FGS FEGS LLD (died 9 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Keith Johnston is the 85th most popular geographer, the 6,158th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,087th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Geographer. … 1804 - 1871 HPI:48.84 Rank:85 … POLITICIAN 1793 - 1871 HPI:46.12 Rank:75 … MUSICIAN 1978 - Present HPI:48.86...
pantheon.worldHe was also a fellow of the Geographical Society of Paris, and a corresponding member of the Imperial Geographical Societies of Vienna and St. Petersburg, of the Geographical Society of Bombay, and of the Geographical and Statistical Society of America. He died at Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, from effusion of blood on the brain, on 9 July 1871, and was buried on the 14th in the Grange cemetery, Edinburgh. … It was the rainy season, and the expedition did not really start before May. It had hardly...
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