John Ash

John Ash (c. 1724–1779) was an English Baptist minister at Pershore, Worcestershire, and author of an English dictionary and grammar books.

Life Ash was born in Dorset about 1724. He studied for the ministry at Bristol, under Bernard Foskett, became pastor at Loughwood Meeting House, a Baptist chapel near the village of Dalwood in Dorset, and while there contributed to periodicals. He settled in the ministry at Pershore in 1746, as the result of a compromise between different parties in the congregation.

He obtained a degree of LL.D. from a Scottish university in 1774, and died at Pershore in March or April 1779, aged 55.

An earlier work was: Grammatical Institutes. It has been commented that "Ash understood much better than Lowth what it took to write a grammar for children."

Other works: Sentiments on Education, collected from the best writers; properly methodized, and interspersed with occasional observations. Vol. I; Vol. II, 1777 The perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry. A sermon, preached in Broad-Mead, Bristol, before the Bristol Education Society, August 12, 1778, 1778 Dialogues of Eumenes.'