Joseph Jowett (1751 – 13 November 1813) was an English

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and jurist. He was Fellow and Tutor of

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, and Regius Professor of Civil Law at

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from 1782 to 1813. He was the uncle of

William Jowett William Jowett (1787 – 20 February 1855) was a missionary and author, in 1813 becoming the first Anglican cleric to volunteer for the overseas service of the Church Missionary Society. A leader of the Evangelicals at Cambridge, he worked in Malt ...

.Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''

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'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Life

The son of Henry Jowett of

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, Joseph Jowett was educated in Leeds before being admitted to

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in 1769. He moved to Trinity Hall in 1773, becoming a Fellow there that year and a Tutor in 1775. He was

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of Wethersfield,

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from 1795 until his death in 1813. It is here at St. Mary Magdalene Church that he oversaw the vicarage to which

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had his first curacy. He was known as "Little Jowett." He originated the

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of Great St Mary’s Church, from which the chimes of Big Ben were adapted.

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Joseph Jowett pedigree
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1751 births 1813 deaths Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Cambridge) 18th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English Anglican priests {{UK-academic-stub