His elder brother JOHN JOSIAS CONYBEARE (1779-1824), also educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and an accomplished scholar, became vicar of Batheaston, and was professor of Anglo-Saxon and afterwards of poetry at Oxford. He likewise 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.)
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM JOHN (1815-1857), English divine, son of Dean W. D. Conybeare, was born on the 1st of August 1815, and was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1837. From 1842 to 1848 he was principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, which he left for the vicarage of Axminster. He published _Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social_, in 1856, and a novel, _Perversion, or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity_, but is best known as the joint author (with J. S. Howson) of _The Life and Epistles of St Paul_ (1851). He died at Weybridge in 1857.
COODE, SIR JOHN (1816-1892), English engineer, was born at Bodmin, Cornwall, on the 11th of November 1816, the son of a solicitor. After considerable experience as an engineer in the west of England he came to London, and from 1844-1847 had a consulting practice in Westminster. In the latter year he was appointed resident engineer in charge of the extensive national harbour works at Portland then in progress. In 1856 he was appointed engineer-in-chief of this undertaking, and this post he retained till the completion of the works in 1872. His services at Portland were rewarded with a knighthood. He was now recognized as the leading authority on harbour construction, and his advice was sought by many of the colonial governments, especially by those of South Africa and Australia, and by the Indian government. After the Portland harbour his best-known work is the harbour of Colombo, Ceylon. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1886. From 1884 till his death he was a member of the Suez Canal Commission, and from 1889-1891 president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He died at Brighton on the 2nd of March 1892.
COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853- ), American scholar, was born on the 6th of March 1853 in Montville, Morris county, New Jersey. He graduated at Rutgers College in 1872, and also studied at Göttingen and Leipzig (1877-1878), and, after spending the years 1879-1881 as associate in English at Johns Hopkins University, in London, and under Sievers at Jena, he became in 1882 professor of English in the University of California, and in 1889 professor of English language and literature in Yale University. He re-organized the teaching of English in the state of California, and edited many texts for reading in secondary schools; but he is best known for his work in Old English and in poetics. He translated, edited, and revised Sievers' _Old English Grammar_ (1885), edited _Judith_ (1888), _The Christ of Cynewulf_ (1900), _Asser's Life of King Alfred_ (1905), and _The Dream of the Rood_ (1905), and prepared _A First Book in Old English Grammar_ (1894). He also edited, with annotations, _Sidney's Defense of Poesie_ (1890); _Shelley's Defense of Poetry_ (1891); _Newman's Poetry_ (1891); _Addison's Criticisms on Paradise Lost_ (1892); _The Art of Poetry_ (1892), being the essays of Horace, Vida and Boileau; and _Leigh Hunt's What is Poetry_ (1893); and published _Higher Study of English_ (1906).