Richard Conyers

CONYERS, Richard. b. Lastingham, Yorkshire, February 1725; d. Deptford, south-east London, 23 April 1786. He was educated at the Free Grammar School, Coxwold, and Jesus College, Cambridge (BA 1745, MA 1749). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1745, priest 1755), serving as curate of Kirby Misperton, Yorkshire, 1745-50; rector of Helmsley, Yorkshire, 1756-75 (also curate of Kirkdale, 1756-62, and rector of Kirby Misperton, 1763-68). He moved from his native Yorkshire to St Paul’s, Deptford, in 1775, where he introduced prayer-meetings and lectures; he died there of a seizure while preaching. Conyers, who underwent a ‘conversion’ experience in 1753, was one of the noted evangelical clergy of his...