Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He published Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social, in 1856, and a novel, Perversion, or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity, but is best known as the joint author (with
JS Howson) of The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1851). He died at
Weybridge in 1857, and is buried in
Brompton Cemetery, London. Tutor to Vernon Lushington.
From Wikipedia
William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.
He was the son of
Dean WD Conybeare, and was educated at
Westminster and at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1837.
From 1842 to 1848 he was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later
Liverpool College), which he left for the vicarage of
Axminster.
He published Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social, in 1856, and a novel, Perversion, or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity, but is best known as the joint author (with
JS Howson) of The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1851).
He died at
Weybridge in 1857, and is buried in
Brompton Cemetery, London.
[1]From Venn’s
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Oct. 22, 1832.
S. and h. of William Daniel, V. of Sully, Glamorgans., 1821-36 (for whom see D.N.B.). B. Aug. 1, 1815.
Matric. Lent 1833; Scholar, 1835; B.A. (15th Wrangler and 3rd Classic) 1837; M.A. 1840.
Fellow, 1839.
Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, July 9, 1940, 'of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A., age 24, s. of the Rev. William Daniel, clerk, of Axminster, Devon.' Ord. deacon and priest (Lichfield) 1841; Whitehall Preacher, 1841-3. First Principal of Liverpool Collegiate Institution, 1842-8. Succeeded his father as V. of Axminster, Devon, 1848-54.
Author, Essays Ecclesiastical and Social; Perversion (a novel); Life and Epistles of St Paul (joint author with Rev. J. S. Howson). Died July 22, 1857, of consumption, at Weybridge.
Brother of John C. (1838) and father of John W. E. (1862).
(Boase; D.N.B.)