Johnston founded the Royal Asiatic Society. He died on 6 March 1849 at London and was buried at Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire. Personal His son Alexander Robert Johnston was a colonial official in Mauritius and Hong Kong before going to England (and died in the United States in 1888). References 1849 deaths 19th-century British people Attorneys General of British Ceylon British Ceylon judges Chief Justices of British Ceylon Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Ceylon Sri Lankan people of Scottish descent