William Conybeare (author) explained

William John Conybeare (1 August 1815  - 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.[1] Who was the first Principal of Liverpool College.

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]

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] [3] 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).[4]

He published Church Parties, a 30,000 word essay on the different styles of churchmanship found within the Anglican Church, in 1855.[2] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Conybeare, William John. 7. 70.
  2. Book: Burns, Arthur . Taylor . Stephen . 1999 . From Cranmer to Davidson : A Church of England Miscellany . 7: W. J. Conybeare - 'Church Parties' . 213-386 . Boydell & Brewer . Martlesham . 10.1017/9781787441170 . 978-1-7874-4117-0 .
  3. Web site: Residents of Brompton Cemetery . 19 May 2007 . 23 August 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060823091118/http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm . dead .
  4. Web site: The life and epistles of st. Paul, by W.J. Conybeare and J.S. Howson. John Saul Howson. William John Conybeare. September 27, 1856. Internet Archive.
  5. Book: Clark, J.C.D. . Gregory . Jeremy . The Oxford History of Anglicanism . II: Establishment and Empire, 1662 -1829 . 16 : Church, Parties, and Politics . 289–313 . 10.1093/oso/9780199644636.003.0016 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0-1996-4463-6 .