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William John Conybeare

William John Conybeare (August 1, 1815 - 1857), English divine, son of Dean WD Conybeare[?], 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 (with JS Howson) of The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1851). He died at Weybridge[?] in 1857.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.



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