The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

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Life of Benjamin Jowett

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the Cambridge Auxiliary Bible Society, supporting the
efforts of the serious undergraduates, when even Isaac
Milner recoiled before the fulminations of Doctor-afterwards Bishop-Marsh; (4) as a minor feature, his keen
interest in the progress of music. He sang 'alto ' in
concerts which he had organized, and which took place in
the Combination Room, and on one occasion certainly
June 4, 1789) in the Hall, of Trinity Hall.
Henry Jowett, of Little Dunham, 1756-I830.
Henry Jowett, after passing several years as Lecturer
and Tutor at Magdalene College, Cambridge, succeeded his
friend John Venn as Rector of Little Dunham, Norfolk,
in 1792. He married Charlotte Iveson, of Leeds, and
had eight children. His daughter Charlotte became
Mrs. Whiting. A good many of his letters have been
preserved. They exhibit him in a very interesting light,
as a faithful pastor, a tutor of young men2, a keen
lover of music, and an active and observant traveller.
He assisted in starting the Norfolk branch of the Bible
Society, and i* known to have been the founder of the
first of many Clerical Societies.
He was a genial parish priest, who upon occasion, as
at the Peace of 1814, knew how to organize a village
festival, with dancing, &c. There is a touch of playfulness in his letters to his sister Sarah, who kept house
for him after he became a widower in 1809. He showed
paternal interest not only in his own, but in his brothers'
families. His life-long friendship with the Venns proves
his warmth and constancy.
See below, p. ii. James, who, when old enough for
2 See the Life of Henry Venn Cambridge, went to Trinity Hall
Elliot (who was one of his pupils), because of Joseph Jowett. See
chap. i. Another pupil was the Life of Fitzjames Stephen by
James Stephen, afterwards Sir his brother, chap. i.