John Henry Jowett

John Henry Jowett CH (25 August 1863 – 19 December 1923) was an influential British Protestant minister and preacher at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, who wrote books on topics related to Christian living.

He was influenced by the congregationalist Reverend Enoch Mellor (incumbent at Square Chapel, Halifax, between 1867 and 1881), and determined to become a preacher.

Jowett understood the problems faced by workers and while the pastor at Carr's Lane Congregational Church in Birmingham, England, founded the Digbeth Institute, now an arts center.

While at Carr's Lane Jowett was elected chairman of the Congregational Union and president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches.

Jowett served at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, from 1911 to 1918, then Westminster Chapel from 1918 to 1922, when he retired due to ill-health, dying the following year.