B. G. (Bennett George) Johns

Bennett George Johns was a 19th-century British writer, educator, and clergyman. Sources describe him as the brother of natural history writer Charles Alexander Johns, and as a man whose career included serving as chaplain of the School for the Indigent Blind in Southwark and headmaster of Dulwich Grammar School.

He wrote educational and religious works for a broad readership, including A History of Spain for Young Persons, The Book of Poetry, and Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men. A later scholarly article highlights that last book as an important window into Victorian ideas about blindness, education, and social life.

Johns seems to have been especially interested in making serious subjects accessible to ordinary readers and young people. Although he is not widely known today, his books show the practical, moral, and educational spirit of Victorian nonfiction.