John Josias Conybeare

John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was also educated at Christ Church, Oxford.

He was an accomplished scholar, became vicar of Batheaston, and was Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), and afterwards Professor of Poetry (1812–1821), at Oxford. He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse (1814)

Like his brother, he 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 Ann. Phil. vol. viii., Sept. 1824, p. 162.)

He gave the Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1824, which were published posthumously.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Name	Conybeare, John Josias
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Date of birth	1779
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