became very successful, for his active and vigorous nature was such as to make success a certainty in almost anything he took in hand, and he has left behind him large and valuable station and other properties. In the year 1831 he married the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Weller, of Hammershaw County, Bucks, England, and had a family of seven sons and two daughters. The elder daughter is the wife of Mr. Samuel Dickinson, a member of the firm of Learmonth, Dickinson, and Co., and the second married Mr. S. A. Murray, of P. N. Russell and Co. In Lieutenant Johnston was promoted to the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy. Up until his later years, Johnston remained very active. He continued to work and later on embarked on a journey to New Zealand, and a rough yachting cruise along the coast of New South Wales. At the age of 92 he was making arrangements to pay a visit to England. Death and legacy Robert Johnston died of old age with a funeral taking place at Annandale on a Sunday afternoon, which was attended by about 150 friends and family, and viewed by a large gathering of people from the surrounding neighbourhood, who watched the proceedings with respectful interest. He was buried at the grounds attached to the State residence of the deceased, and not far from the Camperdown and Petersham road (Parramatta Road). Under the command of a lieutenant from a party of blue jackets, formed a firing party to pay the last tribute of respect accorded at naval and military funerals, with a portion of the men being told off to carry the coffin to the grave. References Australian pastoralists Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars 1792 births 1882 deaths 19th-century Australian businesspeople