John William Searle (29 March 1905 – 7 July 1969) was an Australian minister and educator.
[1] Searle was born in Normanby, Yorkshire and arrived in Australia in 1925.
He became a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and served in Queenstown, Tasmania from 1940 to 1941.
Rowland Ward notes that Searle "was loyal to the vision of the founders and of Nash, his mentor.
"[3] Like Nash, Searle "had faced opposition from those unsympathetic to the Evangelical faith, but had not been embittered by it.