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| | WILLIAM DANIEL CONYBEARE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM DANIEL CONYBEARE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | (1787-1857), dean of Llandaff, one of the most distinguished of English geologists, who was born in London on the 7th of June 1787, was a grandson of John Conybeare, bishop of Bristol (160217 85),a notable preacher and divine, and son of Dr William Conybeare, rector of Bishopsgate. |
 | | The original contributions of Conybeare formed the principal portion of this edition, of which only Part I., dealing with the Carboniferous and newer strata, was published. |
 | | His elder brother JoHN JOSIAS CONYBEARE (1779-1824), also educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and an accomplished scholar, became vicar of Batheaston, and was professor of Anglo-Saxon and afterwards of poetry at Oxford. |
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