James Henry Alexander Gwyther

James Henry Alexander Gwyther was a 19th-century Anglican clergyman and writer. His best-known surviving publication is The Unity of the Church Essential to the Conversion of the World, a sermon preached before the directors and friends of the London Missionary Society in May 1846 at St. Mary, Spital Square, London. The printed edition identifies him as M.A. and Vicar of Madeley, in Shropshire.

Some historical sources refer to him with the expanded name James Henry Alexander Philipps, suggesting a later connection to the Philipps family name. Because the available records located here are limited, it is safest to say that he is chiefly traceable today through his published sermon and local historical references rather than through a large body of widely known books.

For listeners interested in religious history, his work reflects the strong evangelical and missionary concerns of the Victorian period, especially the belief that unity within the church mattered deeply for public witness and world mission.