1) CONYERS (1683-1750).-Divine and scholar, _b._ at Richmond, Yorkshire, and _ed._ at Camb. He was the author of several latitudinarian treatises on miracles, etc., which brought him into controversy with Waterland (_q.v._) and others, and of a _Life of Cicero_ (1741), largely plagiarised from William Bellenden, a Scottish writer of the 17th c