Johnston, Lloyd

JOHNSTON, Lloyd (1767-1842), a native of County Leitrum, Ireland, was active in Saint John, New Brunswick from 1824 until his death there on 22 December 1842, and may have been one of the first professionally trained architects to practise in the Maritimes. He prepared the 'purely Gothic' design for St. John's Anglican Church, Carleton Street, SAINT JOHN, N.B. in 1824 -25 (Gazette [Montreal], 6 Aug. 1825, 2, descrip.; A.L. Fleming, History of St. John's Church, Saint John, 1925, 16-23, illus.; H. Kalman, History of Canadian Architecture, 1994, 262, illus. & descrip.). He was one of three architects to submit plans in 1824 for the Saint John Court House, but his cost estimate of £6499 for the building was rejected by the Selection Committee as too costly, and the design and estimate prepared by John Cunningham was accepted (New Brunswick Museum, Ward Chipman Corresp., Box 8, F12). He may have been related to John L. Johnston of Halifax who, in his Last Will & Testament, makes reference to his father Lloyd Johnston (death notice in the Saint John Daily News, 26 Dec. 1842, 3; inf. G. Shutlak, PANS, Halifax, N.S.)