Conybeare

Conybeare, WILLIAM JOHN, joint-author with Dean Howson of a widely known Life and Epistles of St Paul (1851), was born 1st August 1815, son of William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857), the eminent geologist, who in 1844 became dean of Llandaff. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow. In 1842 he was appointed principal of the newly-founded Liverpool Collegiate Institution, which ill-health compelled him to exchange for the vicarage of Axminster. He died at Weybridge in 1857. Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social (1856), and a novel, were his only other works.