John Sears

John Edward Sears (28 November 1857 – 20 January 1941) was a British architect and politician.

He was the son of the Reverend James Sears, a Baptist minister in Camberwell in south London, and quickly became involved in the activities of the church as a teacher and librarian. He became a qualified architect in 1880 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889. He subsequently moved to Hendon in Middlesex, a northern suburb of London. He was a member of the Hendon School Board and a deacon of Hendon Baptist Church. The Progressives were allied to the parliamentary Liberal Party. He became the chairman of the council's Bridges and Housing Committees.

At the 1906 general election Sears was chosen by the Liberals to contest the constituency of Cheltenham. The seat had been held by the Conservative Party since the 1880s, but Sears unexpectedly unseated James Agg-Gardner, the sitting Member of Parliament.