{"id":1864,"count":3,"description":"John Gowring (?-1880) was a High-Calvinist Anglican preacher. He came out as eleventh wrangler at Cambridge; appointed afternoon lecturer at St. John's, Bermondsey; as evening lecturer at St. Giles's, Cripplegate; for twenty years one of the curates at Kennington. Having lost his sight, he became known as the \u201cblind preacher\u201d and was appointed the monumental work of prepare and revise the proof-sheets of the Bible for the blind, along with the Prayer-book. ","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/john-gowring\/","name":"John Gowring","slug":"john-gowring","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}