The road was named after Alexander Robert Johnston, the British Deputy Superintendent of Trade during the First Opium War.
Born in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England he was the son of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston and his wife Frances Ellen Bury Campbell-Johnston (née Paliser).
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