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Conwey, ---, fl. 1603
GB-2014-WSA-05192 · Person · fl. 1603

CONWEY, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner in 1603 (tutor, Mr Roger Edwards).

GB-2014-WSA-05193 · Person · 1859-1880

CONYBEARE, BRUCE LIDDELL OLIVIER, brother of Henry Crawford Arthur Conybeare (qv); b. 25 Jan 1859; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868; left May 1869; readm. 26 Sep 1872; left May 1876; d. at St. Servan, France, 11 Mar 1880.

GB-2014-WSA-05194 · Person · 1860-1927

CONYBEARE, CHARLES FREDERICK PRINGLE, brother of Henry Crawford Arthur Conybeare (qv); b. 19 May 1860; adm. 24 Sep 1868; left May 1869; readm. 25 Sep 1873; left Aug 1874; Midshipman, Royal Navy, 1875, retd. 1880; emigrated to Canada; studied law at Winnipeg, Manitoba; called to bar 1885; settled at Lethbridge, Alberta; Crown Prosecutor, South Alberta, 1888-1900; QC 1894; Chancellor, Diocese of Calgary, 1904; DCL Bishop’s Coll., Lennoxville, 1907, Univ. Alberta 1908; President, Alberta Moderation League, 1919, Alberta Law Society 1926; author, Vahnfried, a poetical romance; m. 24 Jun 1890 Letitia Ida, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Peter H. Attwood, Canadian Militia, London, Ontario, Canada; d. 13 Jul 1927.

GB-2014-WSA-05195 · Person · 1853-1916

CONYBEARE, HENRY CRAWFORD ARTHUR, eldest son of Henry Conybeare MICE, Vice-Pres. ICE, and Ann Newport, dau. of Gen. George Moore; grandson of William Daniel Conybeare (qv); b. 16 Jan 1853; adm. 26 Sep 1867; left Dec 1868; King’s Coll. London; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1882; BA 1888; MA 1891; called to bar, Inner Temple, 14 Jun 1899; appointed to Indian Civil Service after exam of 1871; arrived in India 3 Nov 1873; Assist. Magistrate and Collector, N. W. Provinces and Oudh; Joint Magistrate, Jan 1885; Deputy Commissioner, Aug 1890; Magistrate and Collector, Aug 1891; Agent to Governor-Gen. in Benares, Oct 1897; officiating Commissioner, Apr 1900, confirmed Aug 1900, retd. Nov 1908; JP (1909) Devon; author, An Account of Pargana Dudhi in S. Mirzapur; m. 20 Feb 1889 Amy Maxwell, dau. of Maynard Brodhurst, Bengal Civil Service (previously EICS Bengal), Judge of Supreme Court, North Western Provinces; d. 10 Mar 1916.

GB-2014-WSA-00479 · Person · 1779-1824

CONYBEARE, JOHN JOSIAS, elder son of William Conybeare (qv); b. 10 Jun 1779; adm.; Min. Can. 1792; KS (Capt) 1793; Capt. of the School 1796; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1797, matr. 19 Jun 1797, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1797 - void 17 Dec 1813 (expiry year of grace as V. Batheaston); Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1800; BA 1801; MA 1804; Select Preacher 1808-9; Bampton Lecturer 1824; ordained priest (Winchester, lit. dim. from St Asaph) 3 Jul 1803; an Usher at the School 1803-4; Prebendary of York from 13 Jul 1803; Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1805, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1806; Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University, 1808-12, of Poetry 1812-21; Vicar of Batheaston, Somerset, from 11 Dec 1812; author, On the Geology of Devon and Cornwall, 1823, and of other geological, chemical, and theological tracts; his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry were edited by William Daniel Conybeare (qv) in 1826; m. 21 Feb 1814 Mary, dau. of Rev. Charles Davis, Fellow of Pembroke Coll., Oxford; d. 11 Jun 1824. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-00480 · Person · 1787-1857

CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL, younger son of William Conybeare (qv); b. 7 Jun 1787; in school list May 1803; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1805; 1st cl. Classics & 2nd cl. Mathematics 1808; BA 1808; MA 1811; Select Preacher 1811; Bampton Lecturer 1839; ordained priest (Peterborough) 21 Sep 1817; Rector of Sully, Glamorgan, 1822-36; Rector of Axminster, Devon, 1836-48; Dean of Llandaff from 29 Sep 1844; a leading geologist; FRS 9 Dec 1819; contributed numerous papers on geology and on palaeontology to Transactions of the Royal and Geological Societies; he and Sir Henry De La Beche founded the Bristol Philosophical and Literary Institute 1812; m. 23 Aug 1814 Sarah Anne, sister of Charles Ranken (qv); d. 12 Aug 1857. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-05196 · Person · 1815-1857

CONYBEARE, WILLIAM JOHN, eldest son of William Daniel Conybeare (qv); b. 1 Aug 1815; adm. 12 Jun 1828 (Stikeman's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Oct 1832, scholar 1835; 35th Wrangler and 3rd Classic 1837; BA 1837; MA 1840; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1839, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1840; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jul 1840; ordained deacon 4 Apr 1841, priest 19 Dec 1841 (both Lichfield); Principal, Liverpool Collegiate Institution (Liverpool College), 1842-8; Vicar of Axminster, Devon, 1848-54; joint author with Rev. J. S. Howson of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, 1851; m. 14 Dec 1842 Eliza, youngest dau. of Rev. Joseph Rose, Vicar of Rothley, Leics.; d. 22 Jul 1857. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-05197 · Person · 1739-1815

CONYBEARE, WILLIAM, son of Right Rev. John Conybeare DD, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and Jemima, dau. of William Juckes, Hoxton Square, London; b. 23 Sep 1739; adm. Jan 1752 (Porten's); KS 1752; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - void 21 Aug 1778, Tutor 1767-74, Junior Censor 1765-6, Senior Censor 1769-70, Librarian 1776; BA 1761; MA 1764; BD and DD 1775; Proctor 1770; ordained deacon 10 Oct 1762, priest 17 Jun 1764 (both Oxford); Prebendary of York 2 Oct 1769 – res 13 Jul 1803; Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire, 1774, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1774; Rector of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London, from 1 Aug 1776; m. 19 Aug 1778 Margaret Esther, dau. of Daniel Josias Olivier (qv); d. 5 Apr 1815.

Conyers, John, ca. 1749-1818
GB-2014-WSA-05198 · Person · ca. 1749-1818

CONYERS, JOHN, son of John Conyers MP, Copt Hall, Epping, Essex, and his second wife Lady Henrietta Fermor, sister of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (qv); b.; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1782); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1767, aged 18; Leyden Univ., adm. 3 Jul 1769; of Copt Hall, Epping, Essex; m. 1773 Julia Catherine, only dau. of William Mathew, Baddow, Essex; d. 2 May 1818.