William John Conybeare

William John Conybeare (1 August 1815 – 23 July 1857) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist who was the first Principal of Liverpool College.

Biography William John Conybeare was the son of Dean William Daniel Conybeare. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1833, where he was elected fellow in 1837.

From 1842 to 1848 Conybeare was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution (later Liverpool College). He was survived by his wife, Eliza Rose (1820-1903), and his son, John William Edward Conybeare. Eliza was granddaughter of Thomas Babington. His Daughter Grace Mary Conybeare married George Campbell Macaulay. His son John married Frances Anne Cropper, daughter of James Cropper.

Publications 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

He published Church Parties, a 30,000 word essay on the different styles of churchmanship found within the Anglican Church, in 1855.