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William Daniel Conybeare FRS (7 June 1787 – 12 August 1857), dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman.He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on fossils and excavation in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the first published scientific description of a plesiosaur.
William Daniel Conybeare (born June 7, 1787, St. Botolph, West Sussex, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1857, Itchen Stoke) was an English geologist and paleontologist, known for his classic work on the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous (280,000,000 to 345,000,000 years ago) System in England and Wales. Conybeare was vicar of Axminster from 1836 until 1844 ...
- W. D. Conybeare, William Phillips
- 1822
Name: William Daniel Conybeare Date of birth: 1787 Date of death: 1857 Gender: Male Occupation: geologist and divine Area of activity: Nature and Agriculture; Religion; Science and Mathematics
May 18, 2018 · Conybeare, William Daniel (1787–1857) An English clergyman, Conybeare is best known as co-author, with William Phillips, of Outline of the Geology of England and Wales (1822), one of the most influential textbooks on stratigraphy of the period. He also described and reconstructed saurian fossils from the Lyme Regis area of England.
Portrait of W D Conybeare, aged 65 years. Archive ref: GSL/POR/58/3 Born in London in 1787, Conybeare became interested in fossils during childhood holidays in Bexley. He went up to Oxford in 1805 where he met William Buckland at the geological lectures of John Kidd. On Kidd’s retirement the professorship was first offered to Conybeare who turned it down. The post was then offered to ...
His principal work, however, is the Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822) ,being a second edition of the small work issued by William Phillips and written in co-operation with that author. The original contributions of Conybeare formed the principal portion of this edition, of which only Part I., dealing with the Carboniferous and ...
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Jun 7, 2016 · William Conybeare, an English geologist, was born June 7, 1787. When Mary Anning discovered the first specimens of Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus at Lyme Regis in Dorset in the 1810s, it was Conybeare and his friend Henry De la Beche who described and published her...
