NameRev John William Edward CONYBEARE MA, 966
Birth1843
Death1931
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Spouses
Birth1847, Westmorland
Death1933, Cambridge
Notes for Rev John William Edward CONYBEARE MA
Vicar of Barrington, Cambs. Editor of "Le Morte D'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Mallory.,
Wrote a life of Alfred the Great.
From Venn’s
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Mar. 14, 1862.
S. and h. of William J. (1832) [Principal of Liverpool collegiate Institution]. B. Sept. 29, 1843, at Liverpool.
School, Eton.
Matric. Michs. 1862; Scholar, 1865; B.A. 1866; M.A. 1869.
Ord. deacon, 1868; priest (London) 1869; C. of Staines, Middlesex, 1868-70.
C. of East Molesey, Surrey, 1870-1. V. of Barrington, Cambs., 1871-98.
Rural Dean of Barton, 1896-8. Lady Margaret Preacher, 1898-9. Became a Roman Catholic, 1910.
Of Stokeslea, Union Road, Cambridge.
Author, La Morte d' Arthur; Roman Britain; Alfred in the Chroniclers; also wrote books on Cambridge and the surrounding district, which included the popular Rides Around Cambridge; Highways and Byways, etc.
Died Feb. 14, 1931, aged 87, at Cambridge.
Father of the next and of Alfred E. (1894).
(Cambridge Review.)