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

Biography

William John Conybeare was the son of Dean William Daniel Conybeare.[1] He attended Westminster School, where he formed a life-long friendship with George Cotton, later Bishop of Calcutta.[2] He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1833, where he was elected fellow in 1837.[2][3]

From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College).[1] There, he worked with John Saul Howson, with whom he would later publish Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity. Whilst in Liverpool, he campaigned for the improvement of middle-class education in the city.[2]

With his health deteriorating, Conybeare resigned his position at Liverpool in 1848 and moved to Axminster, Devon, to become vicar.[1][2] He served there until 1854, when he moved to Weybridge, Surrey, where his brother-in-law, Edward Rose, was the parish priest. He died of tuberculosis in Weybridge in 1857, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[2][4] He was survived by his wife, Eliza Rose (1820-1903), and his son, John William Edward Conybeare.[2]

Publications

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).[5]

He published Church Parties, a 30,000 word essay on the different styles of churchmanship found within the Anglican Church, in 1855.[2][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conybeare, William John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 70.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Burns, Arthur (1999). "7: W. J. Conybeare - 'Church Parties'". In Taylor, Stephen (ed.). From Cranmer to Davidson : A Church of England Miscellany. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 213–386. doi:10.1017/9781787441170. ISBN 978-1-7874-4117-0.
  3. "Conybeare, William John (CNBR832WJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "Residents of Brompton Cemetery". Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
  5. 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.
  6. Clark, J.C.D. "16 : Church, Parties, and Politics". In Gregory, Jeremy (ed.). The Oxford History of Anglicanism. Vol. II: Establishment and Empire, 1662–1829. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 289–313. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199644636.003.0016. ISBN 978-0-1996-4463-6.
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