Conway
Robert Seymour Conway FBA (1864–1933) was a British classical scholar and comparative philologist.[1]
Born in Stoke Newington, he was the elder brother of Katharine St John Conway. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria University, Manchester from 1903 until his retirement in 1929.[2]
In 1929 he stood for parliament at the General Election in the constituency of the Combined English Universities for the Liberal party, finishing as runner-up.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Unionist | Martin Conway | 26.8 | 2,679 | 4,321 | |
| Independent | Eleanor Rathbone | 33.3 | 3,331 | 3,394 | |
| Liberal | Robert Seymour Conway | 22.3 | 2,231 | 2,281 | |
| Unionist | Amherst Selby-Bigge | 17.6 | 1,762 | eliminated | |
| Electorate: 13,775 Valid: 10,003 Quota: 3,335 Turnout: 72.6 | |||||
Works
- Verner's Law in Italy: an essay in the history of the Indo-European sibilants (1887)
- The Italic Dialects, edited with a grammar and glossary. (2 volumes, 1897)
- Vergil: an Inaugural Lecture (1903)
- Virgil's Messianic Eclogue (1907) with Joseph B. Mayor and W. Warde Fowler
- The Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin with Tables and practical Illustrations (1908) with Edward Vernon Arnold
- The youth of Vergil: a lecture delivered in the John Rylands Library on 9 December, 1914
- Horace as Poet Laureate: an Address on the Power of Poetry (1917)
- Livius, Ab urbe condita, libri i-x, edn., Oxford, OCT (1914-1919) (with C.F. Walters)
- New studies of a great inheritance, being lectures on the modern worth of some ancient writers (1921)
- The Making of Latin: an Introduction to Latin, Greek and English Etymology (1923)
- Harvard Lectures on the Vergilian Age (1928)
- Poetry and Government: a Study of the Power of Vergil (1928)
- Livius, Ab urbe condita, libri xxi-xxx, edn., Oxford, OCT (1929-1935) (with C.F. Walters & S.K. Johnson)
- The Great Writers of Rome (1930)
- Makers of Europe, being the James Henry Morgan Lectures in Dickinson College for 1930 (1931)
- The Value of the Medicean Codex of Vergil (1931)
- The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, Part I: The Venetic Inscriptions (1933)
- Ancient Italy and Modern Religion, being the Hibbert Lectures for 1932 (1933)
- P. Vergili Maronis - Aeneidos, liber primus (1935)
References
- ↑ "Conway, Prof. R. Seymour". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 373.
- ↑ "Conway, Robert Seymour (CNWY883RS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- “Robert Seymour Conway,” The Classical Review, Vol. 47, No. 5 (November 1933), pp. 162–163
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