James Bowling Mozley (15 September 1813 – 4 January 1878) was an English theologian.He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the younger brother of Thomas Mozley, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough) and later at Oriel College, Oxford.He said he could no more follow John Henry Newman, his brother-in-law, into the Roman communion "than fly".[1] Mozley was one of the earliest supporters of The Guardian, the High Church weekly.In 1856 he became vicar of Shoreham, in 1869 canon of Worcester, and in 1871 regius professor of divinity at Oxford.