honorific_prefix death_date nationality honorific_suffix birth_date article_title name occupation
sir 1622 english mp c 1537 robert johnson -lrb- mp -rrb-
 robert johnson politician
robert johnson -lrb- mp -rrb-

robert johnson -lrb- c 1537 -- 1622 -rrb- was an english politician who sat in the house of commons from 1597 to 1614 .
johnson was the eldest son of william johnson of crawley , buckinghamshire .
he was a surveyor and succeeded to the properties at crawley on the death of his father in 1558 .
he was keeper of gawle , forest of dean in 1591 .
in 1597 , he was elected member of parliament for monmouth boroughs where he was named to committees on weights and measures and pawnbrokers .
he was re-elected mp for monmouth in 1601 and took a strong line in parliament then on temperance issues .
he proposed , for example , on 3 november that innkeepers who failed to restrain habitual drinkers should suffer corporal punishment .
in 1602 he was clerk of deliveries of the ordnance .
he was knighted on 10 july 1604 .
in 1604 he was re-elected mp for monmouth .
he was re-elected mp for monmouth in 1614 .
johnson died in the first half of 1622 .
johnson married marion who died in 1585 and had three sons .
