William Jowett
Deceased Person
1787 – 1855
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Who was William Jowett?
William Jowett 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.
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- Born
- 1787
Newington, London - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Died
- Feb 20, 1855
Clapham
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on July 23, 2013
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