Charles Conybeare (Liberal politician)

Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare (1 June 1853 – 18 February 1919) was an English barrister and a radical Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.

[1] He was educated at Tonbridge School and Christ Church, Oxford where he won the Lothian Prize with a study on The Place of Iceland in the History of European Institutions.

[2] He married Florence Annie Strauss, the daughter of a Bohemian glass merchant, on 15 October 1896, at the Theistic Church in Piccadilly, London.

The financing of this marriage settlement, which effectively entitled Florence to half the value of the property in the event of desertion or divorce, was managed by Isaac Seligman, a wealthy and prominent German-born merchant banker based in London.

He died in Brogueswood, Biddenden, Kent, 44 miles from Bexley, on 18 February, aged 65[17] He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin Church, Fryerning, near Ingatestone, Essex, close to his parents, but in the same tomb-memorial he had erected for Florence three years earlier.