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 402 CONWAY Sec. of State for the North, Feb. 1 6 80/1 to Jan. 1682/3. A Tory. He m., istly, 11 Feb. 1650/1, at Kensington (lie. Fac. off.), Anne, sister of the half-blood of Heneage, ist Earl of Nottingham, da. of Sir Heneage Finch, Recorder of London, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Matthew Cradock. She, who became a Quakeress, d. at Ragley 23 Feb. 1678/9, and was bur. 17 Apr. 1679, at Arrow.(*) Will pr. May 1679. He m., 2ndly, Elizabeth (with ;{^ 13,000), da. of George (Booth), 1st Baron Delamere, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Henry (Grey), Earl of Stamford. She d. s.p.s., in childbed, 4, and was bur. 21 July 1 68 1, at Arrow. He w., 3rdly, before 30 Aug. 1681, Ursula (with Stawell), of Cothelstone, Somerset, Col. in the Army, by Ursula, da. of Sir Robert Austen, Bart. He d. s.p., 11, and was bur. 25 Aug. 1683, at Arrow, when all his honours became extinct. Will dat. 9 Aug., pr. Aug. 1683. C") His widow ;«., as his ist wife, 18 Mar. iS'ic^jG, at Littlecote Chapel, Ramsbury, Wilts, John (Sheffield), Earl of Mul- grave, subsequently (1694) Marquess of Normanby, and finally (1703), after her death, Duke of Buckingham. She d. 13 Aug. 1697. Her admon., as "Marchioness of Normanby," 10 Sep. 1697. BARONY. I. Francis Seymour Conway, of Ragley, co. jy 1-7 -J Warwick, yr. s. of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart, (ancestor, by his 1st wife, of the Dukes of Somerset), being the 2nd s. by his 2nd wife, Laetltia, da. of Alexander PoPHAM, of Littlecote, Wilts, b. iZ May 1679, sue. his next elder br., Popham Seymour-Conway, 18 June 1699,0 '" ^^^ estates of the late Earl of Conway,('') according to the will of that nobleman, when he assumed the additional surname of Conway. He was M.P. (Tory) for Bramber 1701-03. On 17 Mar. 1702/3, he was cr. BARON CONWAY OF RAGLEY, co. Warwick.(') Ranger of Hyde Park 1703-06. On if) See the curious inscription on her coffin plate, in Misc. Gen. et Her., 2nd Ser., vol. iii, p. 3. The long interval between her death and burial is accounted for by her body having been preserved in a glass case till the return of her husband from Ireland. Her son, Heneage C, hap. at Arrow 17 Feb. 1658/9, was bur. there 23 Oct. 1660. G.E.C. and V.G. C") He was author of a Latin work called Opuscu/a Philosophlca. (^) He d. unm., in his 24th year, from a wound received in a duel with Col. Kirke. i^) The Earl was first cousin, ex parte materna, to Lxtitia, the mother of these young men, her father, Alexander Popham, being br. of Frances, Viscountess Conway abovenamed, the Earl's mother. (') This was probably owing to his father. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1661-78, who exercised great influence till his death in 1708, and who, being in remainder to the Dukedom of Somerset, is said to have declined a peerage for himself. Bishop Burnet states that the Ministry prevailed on the Queen at this period, for the sake of having a clear majority in the next session, " to create four new Peers who had
 * ^30,ooo), 1st da. and coh. of George Stawell (br. of Ralph, ist Baron