Johnson, Catherine Mary (1895-1996), harpist, teacher, and family historian

Catherine Johnson M.A., A.R.C.M. was born in Reading on 26th Aug 1895 to the Reverend Henry Barham Johnson M.A. (1848-1917) and Catherine Bodham Donne (1862-1967). She began to study the harp when she was 8, and by June 1910 (age 14) she won a musical scholarship to the Royal College of Music. At the age of 19 she went to St Hilda's, Oxford. She taught English at St Mary's School, Wantage (1917) and Lincoln Technical College (1919-1928), and music at Salford Secondary School (1928-1930) and Norwich Technical College (1930-1966). She called herself Mary Barham Johnson, although she was not baptised with the "Barham" in her name.