John Lobb (7 August 1840 - July 1921) was a journalist, local politician and spiritualist. Born in Whitechapel, he became involved in the Primitive Methodist church as a lay preacher and as the editor or manger of various Methodist publications including the Kingsland Monthly Messenger The Christian Age. In 1876 he came into the public eye when he organised a fund for the Reverend Josiah Henson, the black American minister who was the inspiration for Hariett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lobb edited Henson's best-selling biography, and together with Henson had an audience with Queen Victoria in 1877.