Robert Seymour Conway

Robert Seymour Conway (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]

Conway

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.

General Election 1929: Combined English Universities (2 seats)

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

• The Italic Dialects, edited with a grammar and glossary. (1897) two volumes
• 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
• Livius, Ab urbe condita, libri i-x, edn., Oxford, OCT (1914-1919) (and C.F. Walters)
• New studies of a great inheritance, being lectures on the modern worth of some ancient writers (1921)
• Harvard Lectures on the Vergilian Age (1928)
• Livius, Ab urbe condita, libri xxi-xxx, edn., Oxford, OCT (1929-1935) (and C.F. Walters & S.K. Johnson)
• Great Writers of Rome (1930)
• Makers of Europhttp://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001058193e (1931) James Henry Morgan lectures in Dickinson College for 1930
• Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, Part I: The Venetic Inscriptions (1933)
• Ancient Italy and Modern Religion (1933) Hibbert Lectures for 1932
• P. Vergili Maronis - Aeneidos, liber primus (1935)

References

1. "Conway, Prof. R. Seymour". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 373.
2. "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