William Conybeare (author)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist<ref name=EB1911>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> who was the first Principal of Liverpool College.

Biography

William John Conybeare was the son of Dean William Daniel Conybeare.<ref name=EB1911/> He attended Westminster School, where he formed a life-long friendship with George Cotton, later Bishop of Calcutta.<ref name=Burns_1999>Template:Cite book</ref> He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1833, where he was elected fellow in 1837.<ref name=Burns_1999/><ref>Template:Acad</ref>

From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College).<ref name=EB1911/> 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.<ref name=Burns_1999/>

With his health deteriorating, Conybeare resigned his position at Liverpool in 1848 and moved to Axminster, Devon, to become vicar.<ref name=EB1911/><ref name=Burns_1999/> 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.<ref name=Burns_1999/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was survived by his wife, Eliza Rose (1820-1903), and his son, John William Edward Conybeare.<ref name=Burns_1999/>

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<ref name=EB1911/> (1852, 2nd ed. 1856).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He published Church Parties, a 30,000 word essay on the different styles of churchmanship found within the Anglican Church, in 1855.<ref name=Burns_1999/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

External links

• Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social (1855) by W. J. Conybeare at Archive.org
• Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity (1856) by W. J. Conybeare at Archive.org
• The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1856) by The Rev. W. J. Conybeare and The Rev. J. S. Howson at Archive.org