Conybeare, John William Edward (1843 -1931)

The Reverend John William Edward Conybeare, was the son of William John Conybeare M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Eliza Rose, and the grandson of the author of An elementary course of lectures on the criticism, interpretation, and leading doctrines of the Bible (London, 1834) Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he was admitted 14 March 1862, he received his B.A. in 1866 and his M.A. in 1869, and was ordained deacon 1868, and priest 1869 in the diocese of London. He married, 29 December 1870, Frances Anne Cropper. He was Curate of East Molesey in Surrey 1870 1871, Vicar of Barrington in Cambridgeshire from 1871 1898, and Rural Dean of Barton 1896 1898, and Lady Margaret Preacher 1898 1899. A keen cyclist and author of A history of Cambridgeshire, Alfred in the chroniclers and Roman Britain. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1910.