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===[[name::Nathaniel]] [[name::JOHNSTON]] [[date of birth::1629]]?-[[date of death::1705]]===

====Biographical Note====
Probably born at [[place of birth::Whitgift, Yorkshire]], son of [[family::John Johnston]], [[occupation::rector]] of [[location::Sutton upon Derwent]], but Scottish by origin. Admitted at [[education::St Leonard's College, Aberdeen]] 1647, MA [[education::University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] 1654, MD ([[education::King's College, Cambridge|King's College]]) 1656. He practised as a [[occupation::physician]] in [[location::Pontefract]] for a while and moved to [[location::London]] in 1686, where he became a fellow of the [[organisations::Royal College of Physicians]]. He published political works in support of James II, which led to his disgrace after 1688, when he lived in some obscurity, supported by nonjuring and Jacobite friends.

====Books====
Johnston was a studious antiquary and aseembled many materials for a history of [[location::Yorkshire]] from the 1660s onwards, though his planned book was never completed. He was in regular correspondence with other leading antiquaries of the time, including [[associates::Ralph Thoresby]], [[crossreference::Peter Le Neve 1661-1729|Peter Le Neve]] and [[crossreference::Thomas Smith 1638-1710|Thomas Smith]]. He is listed in [[crossreference::Edward Bernard 1638-1697|Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''Catalogi mansucriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 130 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]]; many of these were his own antiquarian [[format::manuscript]] collections.

====Sources====
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*Goldie, Mark. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14946 "Johnston, Nathaniel (bap. 1629?, d. 1705), political theorist and antiquary."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
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