Rev. William Daniel Conybeare This is Me

Education

 View all 16 references Web References

1. 1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography

   www.chlt.org/sandbox/lhl/dsb/p - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/3/2007   Last Visited: 11/10/2007

   Conybeare was the younger son of Rev. William Conybeare, rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. On marrying in 1814, he took a curacy in Suffolk, became rector of Sully (Glamorganshire) in 1822, took his family living as vicar of Axminster (Devon) in 1836, and became dean of Llandaff in 1845. An early member (1811) of the Geological Society of London, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1832. In addition to his scientific work he published works on biblical and patristic theology and was Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1839.
   
   Conybeare was one of the most active early members of the "Oxford school" of geology and was a close associate of William Buckland.
   ...
   In the general introduction to the Outlines, Conybeare considered the range of "actual causes" but regarded them as inadequate to explain such phenomena as the "diluvium" (glacial drift) and the form of valleys; for these he proposed diluvial explanations, although without stressing any concordance with the scriptural Flood. The Outlines described British stratigraphy back to the Carboniferous and was termed "Part I"; Adam Sedgwick was to have assisted Conybeare with a second volume on the earlier strata, but it was never published.

2. 2. www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk

   www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/HPS - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/2/2007   Last Visited: 10/19/2007

   The Leeds HPS Division is pleased to announce a forthcoming one-day conference, on the work and career of the geologist William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857) hosted by the Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, on Friday 19th October 2007.
   ...
   William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857) and the Development of the Geological Sciences
   ...
   Conybeare was part of the highly important Oxford group of geologists in the 1810s, and also an early member of the Geological Society.

3. 3. Cygo Research

   www.cygo.com/research/a.php?ti - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/6/2005   Last Visited: 7/6/2006

   William Conybeare Cygo Research
   ...
   William Conybeare
   ...
   William Daniel Conybeare ( June 7 , 1787 - August 12 , 1857 ) was an English geologist and paleontologist . Conybeare was born in London and educated at Christ Church, Oxford . Having entered holy orders he became in 1814 curate of Wardington, near Banbury , and he accepted also a lectureship at Brislington near Bristol . During this period he was one of the founders of the Bristol Philosophical Institution (1822). He was rector of Sully in Glamorganshire from 1823 to 1836, and vicar of Axminster from 1836 to 1844. He was appointed Bampton lecturer in 1839, and was instituted to the deanery of Llandaff in 1845.
   ...
   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. It affords evidence throughout of the extensive and accurate knowledge possessed by Conybeare; and it exercised a marked influence on the progress of geology in this country. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a corresponding member of the Institute of France . In 1844 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London .