William Jowett
| William Jowett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1787 Newington, Surrey |
| Died | 20 February 1855 Clapham, South London |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Whiting |
| Church | Church of England |
| Writings | Christian Researches in the Mediterranean and many others |
| Title | Secretary of the Church Missionary Society |
William Jowett (1787 – 20 February 1855) was a missionary and author, in 1813 becoming the first Anglican clergyman to volunteer for the overseas service of the Church Missionary Society. A leader of the Evangelicals at Cambridge, he worked in Malta, Syria, and Palestine, and in later life was clerical secretary of the Society and a parish priest in Clapham, South London.
The son of John Jowett of Newington, Surrey, William Jowett was also a nephew of the jurist Joseph Jowett. His father, John Jowett, was a skinner by trade and an early member of the Church Missionary Society.
Jowett was educated by another uncle, the Reverend Henry Jowett, and then at St John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1806. He graduated BA (achieving the ranking of twelfth wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos and winning the Hulsean Prize for an essay on the Jews and idolatry) in 1810, then MA in 1813.
Jowett was a Fellow of St John's from 1811 to 1816. John Henry Overton, in The English Church in the Nineteenth Century, says that "The two Jowetts, Joseph Jowett (1752-1813) and his nephew William Jowett (1787-1855), were also leaders of the Evangelicals at Cambridge.
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