Johnston, Archibald, Lord Warriston (1611-1663)

Scottish advocate and statesman. He was employed by the Covenanters in framing their protests against the attacks of William Laud and his High Church policy, and in answering the aggressive proclamations of Charles I. The General Assembly of 1638 chose him as clerk, and later he was deputed with seven others to negotiate with the English commissioners. Throughout the Civil War he proved so staunch a parliamentarian that Oliver Cromwell raised him to the peerage and appointed him as a commissioner judge of Scotland.

Johnston was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow University. After the Restoration he was executed in Edinburgh in 1663.