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 294: CONWAY CONYBEARE built here by Robert Stephenson in 1848 ; it is 400 ft. long and 18 ft. above high-water mark, and cost 110,000. The town is surrounded by an old wall with towers and battlements. The castle, founded by Edward I. in 1283, is one of the finest structures of the kind in Great Britain ; its walls, overgrown with ivy, are from 12 to 15 ft. thick, and are surmounted by eight huge towers. The remains of an old Cistercian priory, and the "great mansion," built in 1585, are also interesting objects. CONWAY, Moncnre Daniel, an American author, born in Stafford co., Va., March 17, 1832. He received his early education at the Fredericks- burg academy, and afterward entered Dickin- son college, Carlisle, Pa., and graduated in 1849. He began the study of law at Warren- ton, Va., but abandoned this to enter the Methodist ministry. He joined the Baltimore conference in 1850, was appointed to Rockville circuit, Maryland, and in 1852 to Frederick circuit. He also wrote for the "Richmond Examiner," as a warm upholder of extreme southern opinions. Having undergone a change of political and religious opinions, he left the Methodist ministry, and entered the divinity school at Cambridge, Mass., where he gradu- ated in 1854. He then returned to Virginia, but was obliged to leave the state on account of his political opinions, and the same year be- came pastor of the Unitarian church in Wash- ington. Some anti-slavery discourses, and es- pecially one delivered after the assault upon Senator Sumner, led to his dismissal, and in 1857 he was settled over the Unitarian church in Cincinnati. The publication of some books on slavery and its relation to the civil war led to his invitation to lecture on this sub- ject in New England, as he had already lec- tured in Ohio. During the war his father's slaves escaped from Virginia and were taken by him to Yellow Springs, Ohio, and settled there. In 1863 he went to England, and there wrote and lectured on the anti-slavery aspects of the war, and contributed to "Eraser's Mag- azine" and the "Fortnightly Review." To- ward the end of that year he became minister of South Place chapel, Finsbury, and in 1867 also of a chapel formed at St. Paul's road, Camden Town, for evening service only, which posts he still occupies. Mr. Conway has pub- lished "Tracts for To-day" (Cincinnati, 1858); "The Rejected Stone" (Boston, 1861); "The Golden Hour" (1862); "The Earthward Pil- grimage" (London, 1870); and "Republican Superstitions" (London, 1873). A work by him entitled "Sacred Anthology" was an- nounced in London in 1873. He is a frequent contributor to the daily liberal press in Eng- land, and to various magazines and newspapers in the United States. He has lectured before several learned societies in England, and was made a fellow of the royal anthropological so- ciety of Great Britain and Ireland in 1868. CONWAY, Thomas, an officer in the American revolution, born in Ireland, Feb. 27, 1733, died about 1800. He was educated in France, where he entered the army and attained the rank of colonel. He came to the United States in 1777, at the recommendation of Silas Deane, and was at once made a brigadier general. He was at the battles of Brandywine and German- town, and in December, 1777, was made in- spector general with the rank of major general, against the protest of Washington. All through the terrible winter which Washington passed at Valley Forge, Conway was secretly plotting against him, and endeavoring to secure the promotion of Gates to the chief command. His proceedings became so notorious that the con- spiracy was known as " Conway's cabal," and he became very unpopular. Early in 1778 he sent in his resignation, which to his surprise was promptly accepted. On July 4 of that year he fought a duel with Gen. Cadwallader, and, having received what he supposed to be a mortal wound, wrote a letter to Washington in which he said, " You are in my eyes the great and good man." He recovered, however, returned to France, and in 1784 was appointed governor of Pondicherry and all the French settlements in India, with the rank of marechal de camp. On the breaking out of the French revolution he was forced to fly, and his life was saved only by the interposition of the British authorities. CONY. See RABBIT. CONYBEARE. I. John, an English prelate, born at Pinhoe, near Exeter, in 1692, died at Bath, July 13, 1755. He studied at Exeter college, Oxford, received orders, and was curate at Fetcham in 1717. He returned to Oxford in 1718, became successively tutor in his own college, preacher to his majesty at Whitehall, rector of St. Clement's, Oxford, and in 1730 master of Exeter college. In 1732 he publish- ed his celebrated answer to Tindal's " Chris- tianity as old as the Creation," which Dr. War- burton styles one of the " best reasoned books in the world." In that year also he was ap- pointed dean of Christchurch ; and in 1750 he succeeded Dr. Butler in the bishopric of Bristol. A collection of his sermons was published after his death in 2 vols. 8vo. II. John Josias, an English divine and antiquary, grandson of the preceding, born in London in 1779, died in 1824. He was educated at Christchurch col- lege, Oxford, became usher in Westminster school, and in 1807 was elected to the Anglo- Saxon professorship in the university of Oxford. He became professor of poetry in 1812, and delivered the Bampton lectures in 1824. He made valuable contributions to the annals of philosophy and science, and wrote " Illustra- tions of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," a work of great value. III. William Daniel, an English divine and geologist, born at Bishopsgate, June 7, 1787, died at Itchenstoke, near Portsmouth, Aug. 12, 1857. He received his degree of B. A. in 1808, and of M. A. in 1811, at Christchurch college, Oxford. He was one of the earliest and most active members of the geological