William Conybeare

Novelist, Author

1815 – 1857

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Who was William Conybeare?

William John Conybeare 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, 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 of The Life and Epistles of St Paul.

He died at Weybridge in 1857, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

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Born
Aug 1, 1815
Religion
  • Anglicanism
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Westminster School
Died
1857
Weybridge
Resting place
Brompton Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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