William Conybeare (other)
William Conybeare may refer to: * William Conybeare (geologist) (1787–1857), English geologist * William Conybeare (author) (1815–1857), English author, his son * William Conybeare (Provost of Southwell) William James Conybeare was an Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century. William James Conybeare was born on 19 December 1871 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1898, he was Domestic Chaplain to succ ...

William Conybeare (geologist)
William Daniel Conybeare FRS (7 June 178712 August 1857), dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on fossils and excavation in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the first published scientific description of a plesiosaur. Life and career Childhood and education He was a grandson of John Conybeare, bishop of Bristol (1692–1755), a notable preacher and divine, and son of Dr William Conybeare, rector of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate. Born in London, he was educated there at Westminster School, then went in 1805 to Christ Church, Oxford, where in 1808 he took his degree of BA, with a first in classics and second in mathematics, and proceeded to MA three years later. Early career Having entered holy orders he became in 1814 curate of Wardington, near Banbury, and he accepted also a lectureship at Brislington near Bristol ...
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William Conybeare (author)
William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist. Conybeare was the son of Dean William Daniel Conybeare, and was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1837. From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College), which he left for the vicarage of Axminster. Conybeare published ''Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social'' (1855), and a novel, ''Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity'' (1856), but is best known as the joint author (along with John Saul Howson) of ''The Life and Epistles of St Paul''  (1852, 2nd ed. 1856). Conybeare died at Weybridge, Surrey, in 1857, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. References External links''Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social''(1855) by W. J. Conybeare at Archive.org''Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity''(1856) by W. J. Conybear ...
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