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 CONWAY 401 VISCOUNTCY. M.P. for Warwick, 1 624-25, and for Yarmouth (Isle of ^j, Wight), 1626. He was v.p. sum. to Pari, in his ■^ ■ father's Barony, and took his seat 23 Apr. i628,(") becoming, within 2 years afterwards, by his father's death. Viscount Con'way of Conway Castle, and Viscount Killultach [I.]. P.C. [I.] and Marshal of the Army [1.], 1639/40. Gen. of the Horse (against the Scots), 1640, when he was out-manoeuvred and defeated at Newburn near Newcastle; Member of the Assembly of Divines, 1643. He w., about Oct. 1621, Frances, da. of Sir Francis Popham, of Littlecote, Wilts, by Anne, da. and h. of John Dudley, of Stoke Newington, Midx. He d. at Lyon, in France, 26 June 1655, and was bur. at Arrow, aged 61. C") His widow d. 7 May, and was bur. 16 June 1671, aged 74, at Arrow. Will pr. July 1671. VISCOUNTCY 3 and i. Edward (Conway), Viscount Conway of AND Conway Castle [1627] and Baron Conway of Ragley BARONY. [1625], also Viscount Killultagh [I. 1627], ist ^y^, surv. s. and h., b. about 1623; Capt. of a troop of 111. 1655. j^^^^^ ^j-j jgg^. p(^_ j-j-j ^^^ jggQ_ ^g "Edward, ■n- A r)T T-./-.A/f Viscount Killultagh" he was in receipt of a small EARLDOM. r ^x, ^ ■ ^ r> ^ • CC, IT u» C r. T pension from the Irish Cjovt. in looi. l^.K.b. 2 Jan. I. 1679 1667/8; Gov. of Charlemont fort, 1672; a Gov. of the to counties Armagh, Tyrone, Monaghan, and part of Down, 1683. 1672; Joint Commissioner of Customs [I.], 1673-75; Lieut. Gen. of Horse [I.], 1674. On 3 Dec. 1679, he was cr. EARL OF CONWAY, co. Carnarvon, and was introduced 2 1 Oct. 1 680; P.C. [E.] 2 Feb. 1 680/1 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick, 1 68 1 ; (') This is a very rare instance of the s. and h. ap. of a Viscount being sum. {v.p.) in his father's Barony; a like summons, in the case of the s. and h. ap. of Viscount Townshend of Raynham, occurred in 1723, and an apparently unique case of the s. and h. ap. of a Baron possessing two Baronies (Conyers and Darcy), occurred in 1680. See vol. i. Appendix G. G.E.C. and V.G. (*>) " By letters out of France ... my father died there the 26th of last month ... He had had a long distemper upon him of cold and rheum which was much amended by his being at Paris ... he died with that calmness and quietness as one would fall asleep, having his memory and senses perfect to the last." (Letter of Edward, Viscount Conway, to Major George Rawdon, 24 July 1655); ex inform. D. G. Warrand. " A voluptuous man in eating and drinking, and of great licence in all other excesses . . . well versed in all parts of learning ... of a very pleasant and inoffensive conversation." (Clarendon, Hist, of the Rebellion, bk. ii). "A tried soldier, but an indolent man ... too much inclined to the pleasures of the table and to a life of de- bauchery to be relied on for great efforts in a desperate cause. He was possessed of no mean powers as a scholar, and was a man capable of warm friendship; and his social gifts combined with his cordial support of the church had endeared him to Laud." {Life of Clarendon, by Sir Henry Craik, 191 1, vol. i, p. 81). His letters, many of which are printed in Hist. MSS. Com., 14 Rep., App., part ii, seem to show that he had a bright, lively, and agreeable disposition. V.G. 51