Biography
Born on 13 September 1943,Johnson was educated at Richmond School in North Yorkshire and Trinity College,Cambridge. He was a fellow at Trinity from 1966 to 1974,and at Selwyn College from 1974 to 1993. He was appointed as a lecturer in Oriental studies at the University of Cambridge in 1974,remaining in that position until 2005. [1]
He was the President of Wolfson College,Cambridge,from 1993 to 2010,and is now an honorary fellow of the college. [2] He was the Director of the Cambridge University Centre of South Asian Studies from 1983 to 2001,and had been a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university from 2002 to 2010. [1]
Gordon served as the first Provost of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Trust from 2000 to 2010.
He was chair of the Syndicate governing Cambridge University Press from 1981 to 2010. [1] In 2009-2010 he was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography and lectured on "From printer to publisher:Cambridge University Press transformed,1950 to 2010." [3]
He was the President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,2015 to 2018 and is currently serving as the Vice President. [4]
He is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of India,published in 1979. [1] This is a series of self-contained volumes covering various aspects and themes of India's past.
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