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Conway, Henry Seymour. Conway, Henry Seymour (1719–95), soldier and politician, second son of Francis Seymour Conway (Baron Conway and Killultagh, Co. Antrim) and Charlotte Conway (née Shorter), was baptised 12 August 1719 at Ragley, Warwickshire, and educated at Eton. He began military life as lieutenant in the 5th Dragoons (1737), ending ...
Governor 1772-1795 Henry Seymour Conway. History rightly remembers Field Marshal Henry Conway as the man who commissioned the building of Jersey's ring of defensive coastal towers, while it is conveniently forgotten that the French were able to invade Jersey on the eve of the Battle of Jersey in 1781 during his 22-year tenure as the man ...
30 de abr. de 2022 · Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession and eventually rose to the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Family and education.
Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was second son of Francis Seymour, first Lord Conway, by his third wife, Charlotte the daughter of Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London, and sister of Catherine, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford. He was born in 1721 and entered the army at an early age. During the Spring of 1740, he was in Paris ...
Henry Seymour Conway war der zweite Sohn von Francis Seymour-Conway, 1. Baron Conway und seiner dritten Frau Charlotte. Er ging 1732 aufs Eton College und war seit dieser Zeit eng mit seinem Cousin Horace Walpole befreundet. Am 19. Dezember 1747 heiratete er Caroline, die Tochter von John Campbell, 4. Duke of Argyll.
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession and eventually rose to the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Conway was the second son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway (whose elder ...
Henry Seymour Conway, politician and soldier, was his younger brother. Political career [ edit ] In August 1750 he was created Viscount Beauchamp and Earl of Hertford , both of which titles had earlier been created for and forfeited by his ancestor Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset , Lord Protector of England , following his attainder and execution in 1552.
