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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 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 import ...
, and was educated at
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and at
Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...
, where he was elected fellow in 1837. From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later
Liverpool College Liverpool College is a school in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. It was one of the thirteen founding members of the Headmasters' Conference (HMC). History Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian E ...
), which he left for the vicarage of
Axminster Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England. It is from the county town of Exeter. The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Ax ...
. 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 John Saul Howson (5 May 1816 – 1885), British divine, was born at Giggleswick-on-Craven, Yorkshire. Early and private life Howson's father was head-master of Giggleswick School. His nephew George William Saul Howson (1860–1919) was ...
) of ''The Life and Epistles of St Paul''  (1852, 2nd ed. 1856). Conybeare died at
Weybridge Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a crossing point of the ...
, Surrey, in 1857, and is buried in
Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is a London cemetery, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Estab ...
, London.


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''Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social''
(1855) by W. J. Conybeare at Archive.org
''Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity''
(1856) by W. J. Conybeare at Archive.org
''The Life and Epistles of St Paul''
(1856) by The Rev. W. J. Conybeare and The Rev. J. S. Howson at Archive.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Conybeare, William John 1815 births 1857 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests Burials at Brompton Cemetery English non-fiction writers 19th-century English novelists English male novelists 19th-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers