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Conybeare, John Josias, 1779-1824
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1779-1824
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.