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early life h £ was a political reformer , and was apprehended ' with Home Tooke and others , end examined before the Privy CouucU / but soon released . He was a believer in the prophets Bryan and Brothers , and was pne of the principal patrons of the late Joanna Southcott . " He fully
believed this woman was inspired , and thai the substance discovered in her at her death was Shiloh ; and that when sl ? e was in her grave , that substance would gradually waste and ascend up to heaven , from whence it would shortly re-appear on the earth , and become the leader of the Jews to Palestine . He
was a staunch believer in the Scriptures , was a great admirer of them , and was convinced that the period was at hand for the fulfilment of the prophecy respecting the restoration of God's chosen people . He said that their dispersion had been most remarkably fulfilled ; but the prophecy of their gathering together would be fulfilled in a more striking manner . He was the collector of Joanna
Southcott ' s rhapsodies ; she was too ignorant to write . He believed them to be effusions of the most sublime nature , and often said that the poetry of Milton was not at all comparable in point of sublimity with her poetry . " - —Newspapers .
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Lately , the Rev . John Josias Conybe are , vicar of Batheaston , where he was buried in a spot selected by himself , June 20 , 1824 . He was educated at Westminster School , and in the year 1793 was admitted scholar of St . Peter ' s
College , Westminster ; having throughout the whole . examination which precedes such admission distinguished himself in a most eminent manner , so as to have been constantly at the head of those who stood out , and finally having been admitted at the head of his ejection . The
reputation for abilities and scholarship which he then established had been anticipated in consequence of the distinguished talent shewn in his school exercises , and was afterward supported throughout his stay at Westminster in such a manner as to viudicate to him the character of
the cleverest boy and the b ^ st scholar then in the school . In 1797 , he was elected a student of Christ Church , Oxford ; and in that University he maintained a reputation as distinguished as that of his earlier years . Besides college prizes which he obtained , taking always the first place , he gained the University under graduate ' s prize : his Latin poem
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being distinguished , as his verses always were , tty a fine poetic taste , a facility of expression , and harmony of numbers , which were always his own . When the Rev . Dr . Carey , now Lord Bishop of Exeter , went from Christ Church as Head Master of Westminster School , in 1803 , Mr . Conybeare undertook for a while the
office ( much below his great talents ) of an usher there . He returned to his studentship at Christ Church in a short time ; but not until his usual kindness had made him generally beloved by the boys of the form over which he was placed . About the same time he was
made Prebendary of York , by that great scholar and very distinguished prelate , Archbishop Mark ham . His merits raised him at Oxford successively to the offices of Anglo-Saxon Professor , and afterwards of Regius Professor of Poetry .
The vicarage of Batheaston , on which he lived , a blessing to his parishioners during many years , was his only church preferment , except that above-mentioned . In the present year he had just delivered the Bampton Lectures , when an attack of
somewhat the same nature with what he had before experienced deprived his country , and our own neighbourhood in particular , of one whose loss we may long lament , but shall scarcely see replaced . His talents were of the very first-rate description . In languages , in poetry , in
taste , he was distinguished far above his contemporaries : as a chemist , eminent ; as a mineralogist , perhaps unrivalled . The writer of this slight sketch speaks from intimate personal knowledge of very many years , when he says , without fear
of contradiction , that whether as boy , or as man , he never met his equal . His goodness of heart was unbounded . No calamity of others came unheeded under his eye ; nor was any thing which kindness could do for another ever omitted
by him . Nor can we wonder at this , when we turn to the most valuable pointy in a character valuable on all points , namely , his deep and unfeigned piety . There was in him a spirit of true devotion , a singleness of heart , a purity of ideas , which rarely , very rarely , have been found . Never did he lose sight of
the responsibility which he had taken upon himself in the character of a parish priest . The multitudes who attended his interment , both of rich and poor , bore just testimony to the character of him who had been truly the father of his parish ; the friend of the poor ; the comforter of the afflicted . —( Bath News * paper . )
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Obituary . *—Rev . John Josias ( Jonybeare . 483
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/35/
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