Robert Johnson was a Catholic priest from Shropshire who was martyred during the reign of Elizabeth I. After serving in a gentleman's household during his youth, he traveled to Rome to join the German College in 1571. He was later ordained in Brussels through the English College at Douai. Upon returning to England in 1580, he was arrested and eventually imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was one of nineteen priests tried alongside Edmund Campion for alleged treason involving a conspiracy against the Queen.