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Charles Edward Johnston, the third child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1830) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born in 1832.
He died in 1900.
Charles Johnston, son of William Johnston MP (1829-1902), was born 17 February 1867. He studied Oriental Studies, Sanskrit, Russian, and German. He attended school with William Butler Yeats and George Williams Russell, with whom he founded the Hermetic Society of Dublin on 16 June 1885. He later introduces Yeats to Madame Blavatsky. Charles Johnston went on to join the Theosophical Society, and cofounded the Theosophical Lodge in Dublin in 1886. During his life he was also President of the Irish Literary Society.
On October 1888, Charles Johnston married Vera Vladimirovna de Zhelihovsky (1864-1923), the neice of Helena Blavatsky. He also entered the Indian Civil Service in 1888, and later served in the British Bengal Service.
Charles Johnston died in 1931.
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Crawford, Fred D. Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume 18. Pennsylvania: Penn State Press, 1998, 12-19.