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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. ==Life== The son of John Jowett of Newington, Surrey, William Jowett was also a nephew of the jurist Joseph Jowett.〔Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)〕 His father, John Jowett, was a skinner by trade and an early member of the Church Missionary Society.〔Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, (Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles ), p. 70, online at archive.org〕 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.〔 In 1813, Jowett became the first Anglican clergyman to step forward for the overseas service of the Church Missionary Society. Between 1815 and 1820 he worked in the Mediterranean region.〔 ''The Christian Observer'' noted in May 1816 "The Rev. Wm. Jowett has established himself in Malta",〔''The Christian Observer, Conducted by Members of the Established Church for the Year 1816, being the Fifteenth Volume'' (London: John Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 1817), (p. 330 ) at books.google.com〕 while ''The Baptist Magazine'' reported in 1816 under the heading 'Church Missionary Society' that Jowett was based in Malta for most of his first five years in the Mediterranean, but during that period he also lived for a time in Corfu and twice visited Egypt. He returned to England in 1820, with his family, to recover his health.〔Edwards, B. B., & Charles Williams, ''The Missionary Gazetteer; Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account of the Various Stations of the American and Foreign Protestant Missionary Societies of All Denominations'' (London: W. Hyde & Co., 1832) (p. 273 ) at books.google.com〕 Considering the peoples and religions of Africa while he was based in Malta, Jowett wrote "Even the geographer, whose task lies merely with the surface of the land and sea, confesses that all he has to show of Africa is but as the hem of a garment!"〔''The History of the Church Missionary Society'', vol. 1, (Chapter V, Africa and the East Waiting ) at archive.org〕 In 1818, writing from Malta to the Rev. James Connor in Constantinople, Jowett said: "Religious tracts are too generally dull, because they deal more in abstract truth than in living pictures... It is well, in all our observations of life, to keep some very leading truths in view: they serve as beacons, by the help of which the philosophic mind shapes its course."〔''Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East'' (Church Missionary House, 1819) (pp. 261-262 ) at books.google.com (see ''Extract of a letter from the Rev. William Jowett to the Rev. James Connor, dated Malta, Nov. 30, 1818''〕 Later, from 1823 to 1824, Jowett worked for the Society in Syria and Palestine.〔 Towards the end of 1823, he visited Jerusalem.〔Chapin, Walter, ''The Missionary Gazetteer, Comprising a View of the Inhabitants, and a Geographical Description of the Countries and Places, where Protestant Missionaries Have Labored'' (Woodstock, Vermont: David Watson, 1825) (p. 173 ) at books.google.com〕 From 1832 to 1841, Jowett was clerical secretary of the CMS and was also lecturer at St Mary Aldermanbury and St Peter upon Cornhill, both in the City of London, and at Holy Trinity, Clapham.〔 Eugene Stock, writing ''The History of the Church Missionary Society'' at the end of the 19th century, described Jowett in his role as clerical secretary of the Society as "faithful and tender-spirited" and over-shadowed by the Society's Lay Secretary, Dandeson Coates.〔(Vol 2 - The papers of William Watson, 1832-40: Annotations ) (see note 50) at newcastle.edu.au〕 Jowett retired from his position with the Church Missionary Society in July 1841 on the grounds of ill health, and the Society's Committee resolved as follows: A Māori chief of the Ngāti Paoa of Waiheke Island, New Zealand, was baptized 'William Jowett' in honour of Jowett, and in Māori usage this name became 'Wiremu Howete'.〔Locke, Elsie, and Janet Paul, ''Mrs Hobson's album'' (Auckland, 1990) p. 160〕 In 1851, Jowett gained the benefice of St John's, Clapham Rise, and he died at Clapham in 1855.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Jowett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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