William John Conybeare was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.

He was the son of Dean WD Conybeare

William Daniel Conybeare

William Daniel Conybeare FRS , dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the...

, and was educated at Westminster

Westminster School

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 and at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, where he was elected fellow in 1837.

From 1842 to 1848 he was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College), which he left for the vicarage of Axminster

Axminster

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.

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 (with JS Howson

John Saul Howson

John Saul Howson , English divine, was born at Giggleswick-on-Craven, Yorkshire.-Biography:After receiving his early education at Giggleswick School, of which his father was head-master, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Graduating BA in 1837 and MA in 1840, he became private tutor at...

) of The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1851).

He died at Weybridge

Weybridge

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 in 1857, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery

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, London.http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm