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	* 3. "[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=JWT806W&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Jowett, William (JWT806W)]". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.		* 3. "[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=JWT806W&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Jowett, William (JWT806W)]". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
	* 4. Overton, John Henry ''The English church in the nineteenth century (1800-1833)'' (1893), Chapter III, The Evangelicals, p. 65		* 4. Overton, John Henry ''The English church in the nineteenth century (1800-1833)'' (1893), Chapter III, The Evangelicals, p. 65
	* 5.		* 5. "[http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01 The Church Missionary Atlas (Church Missionary Society)]". Adam Matthew Digital. 1896. pp. 67–76. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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	Jowett was educated by another uncle, the Reverend Henry Jowett, and then at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he [[matriculation\|matriculated]] in 1806. He graduated [[Bachelor of Arts\|BA]] (achieving the ranking of twelfth [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)\|wrangler]] in the [[Mathematical Tripos]] and winning the Hulsean Prize for an essay on the Jews and idolatry) in 1810, then [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin)\|MA]] in 1813.<sup>[3]</sup>		Jowett was educated by another uncle, the Reverend Henry Jowett, and then at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he [[matriculation\|matriculated]] in 1806. He graduated [[Bachelor of Arts\|BA]] (achieving the ranking of twelfth [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)\|wrangler]] in the [[Mathematical Tripos]] and winning the Hulsean Prize for an essay on the Jews and idolatry) in 1810, then [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin)\|MA]] in 1813.<sup>[3]</sup>

	Jowett was a [[Fellow]] of [[St John's College, Cambridge\|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 [[Evangelicalism\|Evangelicals]] at [[Cambridge]].<~~ref name="Overton"~~/>		Jowett was a [[Fellow]] of [[St John's College, Cambridge\|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 [[Evangelicalism\|Evangelicals]] at [[Cambridge]].<sup>[4]</sup>

	In 1813, Jowett became the first Anglican clergyman to step forward for the overseas service of the [[Church Missionary Society]].<ref name="CMSatlasHme">{{cite web\|author= \|title= The Church Missionary Atlas (Church Missionary Society)\|pages= 67–76\|date= 1896\| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01\|accessdate=19 October 2015 \| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]]}}</ref> Between 1815 and 1820 he worked in the [[Mediterranean]] region.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> ''The Christian Observer'' noted in May 1816 "The Rev. Wm. Jowett has established himself in [[Malta]]",<ref>''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), [https://books.google.com/books?id=c94RAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA330 p. 330] at books.google.com</ref> while ''The Baptist Magazine'' reported in 1816 under the heading 'Church Missionary Society' that {{quote\|At Malta, an island in the Mediterranean, the Rev. Wm. Jowett is the Society's representative, and is opening a correspondence wherever he can hear of a good and zealous man, likely to assist him in distributing the scriptures and religious tracts, and in bringing [[Mohammedan\|Mahomedans]] and {{linktext\|Heathen}}s to know [[Jesus Christ\|Christ]].<ref>''The Baptist Magazine'' (London: W. Button & Son, 1816), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nlUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA435 p. 435] at books.google.com</ref>}}		In 1813, Jowett became the first Anglican clergyman to step forward for the overseas service of the [[Church Missionary Society]].<ref name="CMSatlasHme">{{cite web\|author= \|title= The Church Missionary Atlas (Church Missionary Society)\|pages= 67–76\|date= 1896\| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01\|accessdate=19 October 2015 \| publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]]}}</ref> Between 1815 and 1820 he worked in the [[Mediterranean]] region.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> ''The Christian Observer'' noted in May 1816 "The Rev. Wm. Jowett has established himself in [[Malta]]",<ref>''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), [https://books.google.com/books?id=c94RAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA330 p. 330] at books.google.com</ref> while ''The Baptist Magazine'' reported in 1816 under the heading 'Church Missionary Society' that {{quote\|At Malta, an island in the Mediterranean, the Rev. Wm. Jowett is the Society's representative, and is opening a correspondence wherever he can hear of a good and zealous man, likely to assist him in distributing the scriptures and religious tracts, and in bringing [[Mohammedan\|Mahomedans]] and {{linktext\|Heathen}}s to know [[Jesus Christ\|Christ]].<ref>''The Baptist Magazine'' (London: W. Button & Son, 1816), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nlUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA435 p. 435] at books.google.com</ref>}}
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	Seventy-eight letters written by Jowett from [[Malta]] and England between 1816 and 1836 are held in the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]]'s Archives.<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0374%2FBSAX%2F1%2FJ BFBS Archives Indexes] at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk</ref>		Seventy-eight letters written by Jowett from [[Malta]] and England between 1816 and 1836 are held in the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]]'s Archives.<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0374%2FBSAX%2F1%2FJ BFBS Archives Indexes] at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk</ref>

	J. H. Overton notes "[[Henry Blunt (priest)\|Henry Blunt]], [[Josiah Pratt]], William Jowett, [[Basil Woodd]], in fact, almost all the leaders of the Evangelical party, were writers of devotional works which have shared the inevitable fate of the vast majority of such works, and, having served their purpose in their day, passed into oblivion."<~~ref name="Overton"~~>~~Overton, John Henry ''The English church in the nineteenth century (1800-1833)'' (1893), Chapter III, The Evangelicals, p. 65~~</~~ref~~>		J. H. Overton notes "[[Henry Blunt (priest)\|Henry Blunt]], [[Josiah Pratt]], William Jowett, [[Basil Woodd]], in fact, almost all the leaders of the Evangelical party, were writers of devotional works which have shared the inevitable fate of the vast majority of such works, and, having served their purpose in their day, passed into oblivion."<sup>[4]</sup>

	==References==		==References==
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	* 2. Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles], p. 70, online at archive.org		* 2. Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles], p. 70, online at archive.org
	* 3. "[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=JWT806W&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Jowett, William (JWT806W)]". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.		* 3. "[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=JWT806W&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Jowett, William (JWT806W)]". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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	* 1. Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)		* 1. Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
	* 2. Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles], p. 70, online at archive.org		* 2. Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles], p. 70, online at archive.org
	* 3. "Jowett, William (JWT806W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.		* 3. "[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=JWT806W&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Jowett, William (JWT806W)]". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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'''William Jowett''' ([[1787 AD|1787]] – 20 February [[1855 AD|1855]]) was a [[missionary]] and [[author]], in 1813 becoming the first [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[clergy]]man to volunteer for the overseas service of the [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]]. A leader of the [[Evangelicalism|Evangelicals]] at [[Cambridge]], he worked in [[Malta]], [[Syria]], and [[Palestine (region)|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, London|Newington]], [[Surrey]], William Jowett was also a nephew of the jurist [[Joseph Jowett]].[1] His father, John Jowett, was a [[skinner (profession)|skinner]] by trade and an early member of the Church Missionary Society.[2]

Jowett was educated by another uncle, the Reverend Henry Jowett, and then at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he [[matriculation|matriculated]] in 1806. He graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] (achieving the ranking of twelfth [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|wrangler]] in the [[Mathematical Tripos]] and winning the Hulsean Prize for an essay on the Jews and idolatry) in 1810, then [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin)|MA]] in 1813.[3]

Jowett was a [[Fellow]] of [[St John's College, Cambridge|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 [[Evangelicalism|Evangelicals]] at [[Cambridge]].<ref name="Overton"/>

In 1813, Jowett became the first Anglican clergyman to step forward for the overseas service of the [[Church Missionary Society]].<ref name="CMSatlasHme">{{cite web|author= |title= The Church Missionary Atlas (Church Missionary Society)|pages= 67–76|date= 1896| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01|accessdate=19 October 2015 | publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]]}}</ref> Between 1815 and 1820 he worked in the [[Mediterranean]] region.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> ''The Christian Observer'' noted in May 1816 "The Rev. Wm. Jowett has established himself in [[Malta]]",<ref>''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), [https://books.google.com/books?id=c94RAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA330 p. 330] at books.google.com</ref> while ''The Baptist Magazine'' reported in 1816 under the heading 'Church Missionary Society' that {{quote|At Malta, an island in the Mediterranean, the Rev. Wm. Jowett is the Society's representative, and is opening a correspondence wherever he can hear of a good and zealous man, likely to assist him in distributing the scriptures and religious tracts, and in bringing [[Mohammedan|Mahomedans]] and {{linktext|Heathen}}s to know [[Jesus Christ|Christ]].<ref>''The Baptist Magazine'' (London: W. Button & Son, 1816), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nlUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA435 p. 435] at books.google.com</ref>}}

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.<ref>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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BjYAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA273 p. 273] at books.google.com</ref>

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!"<ref>''The History of the Church Missionary Society'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter V, Africa and the East Waiting] at archive.org</ref>

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."<ref>''Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East'' (Church Missionary House, 1819) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hr8PAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA261 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''</ref>

Later, from 1823 to 1824, Jowett worked for the Society in [[Syria]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> Towards the end of 1823, he visited [[Jerusalem]].<ref>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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=179IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA173 p. 173] at books.google.com</ref>

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]].<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> [[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]].<ref>[http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/amrhd/wvp/vol2/references1.html Vol 2 - The papers of William Watson, 1832-40: Annotations] (see note 50) at newcastle.edu.au</ref>

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: {{quote|That the Committee, deeply sympathizing with the Rev. William Jowett on the failure of his strength, which they believe to be mainly attributable to his exhausting labours in the Mediterranean Mission, receive with heartfelt and unfeigned regret his resignation of the office of Secretary of the Church Missionary Society — that, while the Committee would ascribe all the praise to the Grace of God our Saviour, they desire to record their grateful sense of Mr. Jowett's long-tried, self-denying, and holy services; which abroad, under the Divine Blessing resting upon his ''Researches in the Mediterranean'', laid the foundation of the [[Egypt]]ian, [[Greece|Greek]], and [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]]n Missions; and at home have left a succession of Instructions, and a series of many hundreds Letters, addressed to the various Missionaries of the Society, as lasting memorials of his Missionary Experience, his Spiritual Wisdom, and his Christian Love — and that the Committee further assure him, that they entertain toward him the liveliest sentiments of respect and affection, and will follow him, in his retirement to less onerous duties, with their earnest prayers that God, in His infinite mercy, may still continue to bless and make him a blessing to others.<ref>''The Missionary Register for MDCCCXLI'' of the Church Missionary Society (London: L. & G. Seeley, 1841), [https://books.google.com/books?id=wn0oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA326 p. 326] at books.google.com</ref>}}

A [[Māori people|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'.<ref>Locke, Elsie, and Janet Paul, ''Mrs Hobson's album'' (Auckland, 1990) p. 160</ref>

In 1851, Jowett gained the [[benefice]] of St John's, Clapham Rise, and he died at Clapham in 1855.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/>

==The first Amharic Bible==
Jowett gives an account of the creation of the first [[Amharic]] Bible, in which he himself played a part.<ref>Jowett, William, ''Christian Researches in the Mediterranean'' (London: L. B. Seeley & J. Hatchard, 1822), pp. 198-213</ref> In about 1809, the French consul at [[Cairo]], M. Asselin de Cherville, met an elderly [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]]n named [[Abu Rumi]], who had been both interpreter to the traveller [[James Bruce]] in North Africa and an instructor to the [[philologist]] [[William Jones (philologist)|Sir William Jones]]. Asselin wished to have some important book translated into Amharic, the vernacular language of Abyssinia, as a linguistic exercise, and employed Abu Rumi to translate the [[Bible]].<ref>Jowett, ''op. cit.'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA198&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1 pp. 198-199] online at books.google.com</ref> Asselin remarked, however, "I blushed while I offered a salary to a man the most simple, the most virtuous, and the most disinterested, that I ever met with."<ref>Jowett, ''op. cit.'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1 p. 200] online at books.google.com</ref> In 1819, after he had finished the whole translation, Abu Rumi died of the [[plague (disease)|plague]] at Cairo. In 1820, while on a visit to Cairo, Jowett saw this work in [[manuscript]], entered into negotiations with Asselin, and on 10 April 1820 bought it for the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] "on terms which appeared to... be equitable to all parties".<ref>Jowett, ''op. cit.'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA202&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1 pp. 202-203] online at books.google.com</ref> The manuscript consisted of 9,539 pages "...in the hand-writing of the Translator, Abu Rumi; which is a bold and fine specimen of the [[Ge'ez alphabet|Amharic character]]".<ref name="Jowettp203">Jowett, ''op. cit.'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1 p. 203] online at books.google.com</ref> Jowett wrote in 1822: {{quote|The publication of the Amharic Scriptures will be as the lighting of a [[Lighthouse of Alexandria|Pharos]] on the inhospitable shores of the [[Red Sea]]!... This remarkable work, therefore, British Christians may well accept as a gift in Trust for Abyssinia.<ref name="Jowettp203"/>}}

This was the first ever complete translation of the Bible into Amharic, and the Bible Society produced an edition by [[Thomas Pell Platt]] and circulated thousands of copies in Abyssinia, where it caused a sensation. The Amharic Bible of Abu Rumi was later revised for the Bible Society by [[Johann Ludwig Krapf]], a German missionary.<ref>''Church Missionary Intelligencer'', February and March, 1882 (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1882): ''[http://anglicanhistory.org/africa/krapf_career1882.html The Missionary Career of Dr Krapf]'' online at anglicanhistory.org</ref> The Abu Rumi Bible was the principle translation of the Bible in Amharic until the [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia|Emperor Haile Selassie]] ordered a new translation which appeared in 1960-61.<ref>Ullendorff, Edward, ''Ethiopia and the Bible'' (Oxford: The British Academy, 1968), p. 66</ref>

==Wife and children==
In 1815, Jowett had married Martha, a daughter of John Whiting of [[Little Palgrave]], [[Norfolk]], and they had seven children together, but his wife died long before him, in 1829.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> She had worked as a missionary alongside her husband, and according to Emma Raymond Pitman's ''Heroines of the Mission Field'' (1880), "Miss Martha Whiting in her youth received a superior education, and evinced not only a zeal for the acquisition of knowledge, but an aptitude for acquiring languages".<ref>Pitman, Emma Raymond, ''Heroines of the Mission Field: Biographical Sketches of Female Missionaries who Have Laboured in Various Lands Among the Heathen'' (Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880), p. 322</ref> A number of her letters survive.<ref>Matthews, Noel, ''et al.'', ''A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to the Middle East and North Africa'' (Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 74</ref> A memorial inscription to Martha Jowett at St Mary's, [[Lewisham]], reads "In memory of Martha, the beloved wife of the Rev. William Jowett M.A., She was eleven years resident as a missionary in Malta, born Oct. 22, 1789, died June 24, 1829. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ?"<ref>Kirby, Herbert Charles, & [[Leland Lewis Duncan]], ''The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard of S. Mary, Lewisham'' (Lewisham Antiquarian Society, 1889) p. 27</ref>

==Publications==
In 1822 Jowett published a work on the Mediterranean, ''Christian Researches'', and in 1825 other work on Syria and Palestine.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> Among his many other works, a memoir of the [[Cornelius Neale|Rev. Cornelius Neale]] ran into two editions.<ref name="Memoir">Jowett, William, ''Memoir of the Rev. Cornelius Neale, M. A.'' (2nd edition, 1835) [https://books.google.com/books?id=JV2heL0VOd8C&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>

*''Christian researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX in the furtherance of the objects of the Church Missionary Society, with an appendix containing the Journal of the Rev. James Connor, chiefly in Syria and Palestine'' (London: L. B. Seeley and J. Hatchard, for the Church Missionary Society, 1822)<ref>Jowett, William, ''Christian researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX'' (1822) [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>
*''Christian Researches in Syria and the Holy Land in MDCCCXXIII and MDCCCXXIV, in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society: with an Appendix Containing the Journal of Mr. Joseph Greaves on a Visit to the Regency of Tunis'' (London: L. B. Seeley and J. Hatchard, 1825)<ref>Jowett, William, ''Christian Researches in Syria and the Holy Land in MDCCCXXIII and MDCCCXXIV'' (2nd edition, 1826), [https://books.google.com/books?id=zTQAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>
*''A Memoir of the Rev. W. A. B. Johnson, Missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Regent's Town, Sierra Leone, A.D. 1816-1823, Compiled from his Journals, etc., by R. B. Seeley, with some prefatory remarks by the Rev. William Jowett, M. A.'' (London: 1832, 430pp)
*''Memoir of the Rev. Cornelius Neale, M. A., to which are added his Remains; being Sermons, Allegories & Various Compositions in Prose and Verse'' (London: Seeley & Burnside, 2nd edition, 1835)<ref name="Memoir"/>
*''The Christian visitor; or, Select portions of the Old Testament, Genesis to Job; with expositions and prayers, designed to assist the friends of the sick and afflicted'' (London: R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1836)<ref>Jowett, William, ''The Christian visitor...'' (1836) [https://books.google.com/books?id=AXoBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>
*''Helps to Pastoral Visitation: illustrating the Spiritual Intercourse of a Minister with his Flock'' (London: Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, 1844, 342pp)
*''Scripture Characters: First Series: Adam to Abraham B.C. 4004—1822'' (London: Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, 1847)<ref>Jowett, William, ''Scripture Characters: First Series: Adam to Abraham B.C. 4004—1822'' (1847) [https://books.google.com/books?id=z-wDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>
*''Family Prayers for Five Weeks'' (London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1855)<ref>Jowett, William, ''Family Prayers for Five Weeks'' (1855) [https://books.google.com/books?id=0eQCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Title page] at books.google.com</ref>

Seventy-eight letters written by Jowett from [[Malta]] and England between 1816 and 1836 are held in the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]]'s Archives.<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0374%2FBSAX%2F1%2FJ BFBS Archives Indexes] at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk</ref>

J. H. Overton notes "[[Henry Blunt (priest)|Henry Blunt]], [[Josiah Pratt]], William Jowett, [[Basil Woodd]], in fact, almost all the leaders of the Evangelical party, were writers of devotional works which have shared the inevitable fate of the vast majority of such works, and, having served their purpose in their day, passed into oblivion."<ref name="Overton">Overton, John Henry ''The English church in the nineteenth century (1800-1833)'' (1893), Chapter III, The Evangelicals, p. 65</ref>

==References==
* 1. Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
* 2. Stock, Eugene, ''The History of the Church Missionary Society, its Environment, its Men and its Work'', vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofthechur015639mbp/historyofthechur015639mbp_djvu.txt Chapter VII, The New Society and its Early Struggles], p. 70, online at archive.org
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==External links==
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A6IPAAAAQAAJ Christian researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX]'' (1822) - full text online at google.com
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zTQAAAAAMAAJ Christian researches in Syria and the Holy Land in MDCCCXXIII and MDCCCXXIV]'' (2nd edition, 1826) - full text online at google.com
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JV2heL0VOd8C Memoir of the Rev. Cornelius Neale M.A.]'' (2nd edition, 1835) - full text online at google.com
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AXoBAAAAQAAJ The Christian visitor; or, Select portions of the Old Testament, Genesis to Job]'' (1836) - full text online at google.com
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=z-wDAAAAQAAJ Scripture Characters: First Series: Adam to Abraham B.C. 4004—1822]'' (1847) - full text online at google.com
*Jowett's ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0eQCAAAAQAAJ Family Prayers for Five Weeks]'' (1855) - full text online at google.com

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