He married the daughter of John Henry Johnstone (1749–1828), a popular tenor and stage Irishman; she died in 1851.
Here in any case Johnstone made his first stage appearance, about 1773, as Lionel in Lionel and Clarissa (Charles Dibdin and Isaac Bickerstaffe).
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It is said that on his discharge his colonel recommended him for his singing in a letter to Thomas Ryder, manager of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
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