Frederick William Conway (1782–1853) was an Irish journalist, newspaper founder and

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. Conway was probably born in Loughrea,

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, where his father ran a newspaper. His entire career was in journalism, becoming the editor of the ''Dublin Evening Post'' after 1800. In 1813, he founded the ''Dublin Political Review'' and in 1821, ''The Drama''. He was also the proprietor of a newspaper called the "Farmer's Gazette" as of 1846 Although Conway was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, being a member of the Catholic Association. he incurred the wrath of Daniel O'Connell who nicknamed him "Castle Conway" in reference to a rumoured pension he received from the British Administration in Ireland based in Dublin Castle. He served as a witness in "Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen" in 1844. He amassed a library of books,

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and

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, the sale of which went on for twenty-five days after his death in Dublin, aged seventy-one (many of the books went to the library of

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(TCD) and other libraries in Ireland). He collected from a wide variety of topics, largely theology from the Thirteenth to Fifteenth centuries.Kelley, William B. Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review. Vol. 2. Dublin: William B. Kelley, 1857. Print. Ser. 2.

References

* ''Galway Authors'', Helen Mahar, 1976 {{DEFAULTSORT:Conway, Frederick William 1782 births 1853 deaths Irish book and manuscript collectors Irish journalists Irish newspaper editors People from County Galway 19th-century Irish businesspeople