William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist[1] who was the first Principal of Liverpool College.
[1] He attended Westminster School, where he formed a life-long friendship with George Cotton, later Bishop of Calcutta.
[2] With his health deteriorating, Conybeare resigned his position at Liverpool in 1848 and moved to Axminster, Devon, to become vicar.
[1][2] He served there until 1854, when he moved to Weybridge, Surrey, where his brother-in-law, Edward Rose, was the parish priest.
[2] Conybeare published Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social (1855), and a novel, Perversion: or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity (1856), but is best known as the joint author (along with John Saul Howson) of The Life and Epistles of St Paul [1] (1852, 2nd ed.