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Robert Seymour Conway FBA
Conway,c. 1921
Born	(1864-09-20)20 September 1864 Stoke Newington, England
Died	28 September 1933(1933-09-28) (aged 69)
Relatives	Katharine Glasier (sister)
Awards	Chancellor's Gold Medal
Academic background
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College (University of Cambridge)
Academic work
Institutions	Victoria University of Manchester

Robert Seymour ConwayFBA (20 September 1864 – 28 September 1933) was a Britishclassical scholar andcomparative philologist.^[1] Born inStoke Newington, he was the elder brother ofKatharine St John Conway. He was educated atCity of London School andGonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with firsts in parts I and II of the classicstripos and won theChancellor's Medal for English Verse.^[2] He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, atVictoria University, Manchester, from 1903 until his retirement in 1929.^[2]

In 1929 he stood for parliament at the General Election in the constituency of theCombined English Universities for theLiberal Party, finishing in third place.

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Robert Seymour Conway

• Verner's Law in Italy: an essay in the history of the Indo-European sibilants (1887)
• The Italic Dialects, edited with a grammar and glossary. (2 volumes, 1897)
• Vergil: an Inaugural Lecture (1903)
• Virgil's Messianic Eclogue (1907) withJoseph B. Mayor andW. Warde Fowler
• The Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin with Tables and practical Illustrations (1908) withEdward Vernon Arnold
• The youth of Vergil: a lecture delivered in the John Rylands Library on 9 December, 1914
• Horace as Poet Laureate: an Address on the Power of Poetry (1917)
• Livius,Ab urbe condita, libri i-x, edn., Oxford, OCT (1914-1919) (with C.F. Walters)
• New studies of a great inheritance, being lectures on the modern worth of some ancient writers (1921)
• The Making of Latin: an Introduction to Latin, Greek and English Etymology (1923)
• Harvard Lectures on the Vergilian Age (1928)
• Poetry and Government: a Study of the Power of Vergil (1928)
• Livius,Ab urbe condita, libri xxi-xxx, edn., Oxford, OCT (1929-1935) (with C.F. Walters & S.K. Johnson)
• The Great Writers of Rome (1930)
• Makers of Europe, being the James Henry Morgan Lectures in Dickinson College for 1930 (1931)
• The Value of the Medicean Codex of Vergil (1931)
• The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, Part I: The Venetic Inscriptions (1933)
• Ancient Italy and Modern Religion, being the Hibbert Lectures for 1932 (1933)
• P. Vergili Maronis - Aeneidos, liber primus (1935)

• "Robert Seymour Conway,"The Classical Review, Vol. 47, No. 5 (November 1933), pp. 162–163

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