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WILLIAM DANIEL CONYBEARE (1787–1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:DANIEL See also:CONYBEARE (1787–1857)  , See also:dean of See also:Llandaff, one of the most distinguished of See also:English geologists, who was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:June 1787, was a See also:grandson of See also:John See also:Conybeare, See also:bishop of See also:Bristol (1692–1755),a notable preacherand divine, and son of Dr See also:William Conybeare, See also:rector of Bishops-See also:gate . Educated first at See also:Westminster school, he went in 18o5 to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where in 18o8 he took his degree of B.A., with a first in See also:classics and second in See also:mathematics, and proceeded to M.A. three years later . Having entered See also:holy orders he became in 1814 See also:curate of Wardington, near See also:Banbury, and he accepted also a lectureship at Brislington near Bristol . During this See also:period he was one of the founders of the Bristol Philosophical Institution (1822) . He was rector of See also:Sully in See also:Glamorganshire from 1823 to 1836, and See also:vicar of See also:Axminster from 1836 to 1844 . He was appointed See also:Hampton lecturer in 1839, and was instituted to the deanery of Llandaff in 1845 . Attracted to the study of See also:geology by the lectures of Dr John See also:Kidd (q.v.) he pursued the subject with ardour . As soon as he had See also:left See also:college he made extended journeys in See also:Britain and on the See also:continent, and he became one of the See also:early members of the See also:Geological Society . Both See also:Buckland and See also:Sedgwick acknowledged their indebtedness to him for instruction received when they first began to devote See also:attention to geology . To the Transactions of the Geological Society as well as to the See also:Annals of See also:Philosophy and Philosophical See also:Magazine he contributed many geological See also:memoirs . In 1821 he distinguished himself by the description of a See also:skeleton of the See also:Plesiosaurus, discovered by See also:Mary Aiming, and his See also:account has been confirmed in all See also:main points by subsequent researches . Among his most important memoirs is that on the See also:south-western See also:coal See also:district of See also:England,written in See also:conjunction with Dr Buckland, and published in 1824 .

He wrote also on the valley of the See also:

Thames, on See also:Elie de See also:Beaumont's theory of See also:mountain-chains, and on the See also:great landslip which occurred near Lyme Regis in 1839 when he was vicar of Axminster . His See also:principal See also:work, however, is the Outlines of the Geology of England and See also:Wales (1822) ,being a second edition of the small work issued by William See also:Phillips (q.v.) and written in co-operation with that author . The See also:original contributions of Conybeare formed the principal portion of this edition, of which only See also:Part I., dealing with the Carboniferous and newer strata, was published . It affords See also:evidence throughout of the extensive and accurate knowledge possessed by Conybeare; and it exercised a marked See also:influence on the progress of geology in this See also:country . He was a See also:fellow of the Royal Society and a corresponding member of the See also:Institute of See also:France . In 1844 he was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the Geological Society of London . The loss of his eldest son, W . J . Conybeare, preyed on his mind and hastened his end . He died at Itchenstoke, near See also:Portsmouth, a few months after his son, on the 12th of See also:August 1857 . (Obituary in Gent . Mag .

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Sept . 1857, p . 335.) His See also:elder See also:brother JOHN JOSIAS CONYBEARE (1779-1824), also educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and an accomplished See also:scholar, became vicar of Batheaston, and was See also:professor of Anglo-Saxon and afterwards of See also:poetry at Oxford . He likewise was an ardent student of geology and communicated several important papers to the Annals of Philosophy and the Transactions of the Geological Society of London . (Obituary in See also:Ann . Phil. vol. viii., Sept . 1824, p .

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