Educated at Eton, Shrewsbury, and Edinburgh University, he was an agricultural improver and translator of medieval French; Richard Payne Knight was his cousin.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Thomas Johnes:

Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV: Newly translated from the French Editions, with Variations and Additions from many celebrated MSS.