William Conybeare (author)

William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.[1]

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.[2][1]

From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College), which he left for the vicarage of Axminster.[1]

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 [1] (1852, 2nd ed. 1856).[3]

Conybeare died at Weybridge, Surrey, in 1857, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[4]

References
  1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conybeare, William John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 70.
  2. "Conybeare, William John (CNBR832WJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. William John Conybeare, John Saul Howson (27 September 1856). "The life and epistles of st. Paul, by W.J. Conybeare and J.S. Howson" – via Internet Archive.
  4. "Residents of Brompton Cemetery". Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
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