Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
Hugh Conway may refer to: * Hugh Conway (novelist) (1847–1885), English novelist * Sir Hugh Conway (Lord Treasurer) (1440–1518), member of the royal household of king Henry VII * Hugh Conway (bishop) (1819–1893), Irish prelate * Hugh E. Conway Hugh Edward Conway was a college professor and expert on labor economics and the construction industry in the United States. He held the Department of Labor Chair and taught economics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He travele ...

Hugh Conway (novelist)
Hugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus (26 December 1847 – 15 May 1885), was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. He had success with his fiction in the early 1880s. Life Fargus was intended for his father's business, but at the age of 13 joined a Mersey school ship '' Conway'' lent by the Admiralty for training merchant navy officers. In deference to his father's wishes, however, he returned to Bristol, where he was articled to a firm of accountants until his father's death in 1868, when he took over the family auctioneering business. On 26 August 1871 married Amy Spark, daughter of a Bristol alderman. They had three sons and a daughter. One son, Archibald, became a first-class cricketer, scholar and clergyman. Works While a clerk, Fargus had written words for various songs, adopting the pen name Hugh Conway in memory of his training-ship days. James Williams Arrowsmith, a Bristol printer and publisher, took an interest, and Fargus's firs ...
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Hugh Conway (Lord Treasurer)
Sir Hugh Conway (or Conwey) (1440–22 March 1518), was a member of the royal household of king Henry VII who served in a number of official posts including Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Treasurer of Calais. Family Hugh Conway was a son of John 'Aer Conwy Hen' of Bodrhyddan Hall and Constable of Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales, by his first marriage, and descended from the ancient line of Conwy (from Conway, Wales) and de Crevecoeur. Hugh's younger half-brother by their father's second marriage was Edward Conway. Edward married Anne, heiress of Arrow and Alcester, Warwickshire. Anne was the daughter of an earlier marriage of Joyce Burdet, who married Hugh. Edward was great-grandfather to Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway of Ragley Hall, and ancestor of the present family of Seymour Conways, Marquis of Hertford. Career Hugh Conway was an early supporter of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond (later Henry VII). In 1483 he was sent by Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, to Henr ...
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Hugh Conway (bishop)
Hugh Conway (2 February 1819 – 23 April 1893) was an Irish prelate who served as Bishop of Killala. He was born in Ballycroy, County Mayo Ballycroy ( meaning "town of the stacks", either hay or turf) is a village in County Mayo, Connacht, Ireland. The village was the location for the 1982 film ''The Ballroom of Romance ''The Ballroom of Romance'' is a 1982 film directed by Pat .... Conwy was ordained priest on 22 September 1842. Conway was appointed titular bishop of Achantus on 21 November 1871; and diocesan bishop of Killala on 9 June 1873. References Roman Catholic bishops of Killala 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland 1819 births 1893 deaths Religious leaders from County Mayo {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub ...
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