Robert Seymour Conway FBA (20 September 1864 – 28 September 1933) was a British

classical scholar Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

and comparative philologist. Born in

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, he was the elder brother of Katharine St John Conway. He was educated at

City of London School The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school for Single-sex education, boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, ...

and

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...

, where he graduated with firsts in parts I and II of the classics

tripos TRIPOS (''TRIvial Portable Operating System'') is a computer operating system. Development started in 1976 at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University and it was headed by Dr. Martin Richards. The first version appeared in January 1978 a ...

and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria University, Manchester, from 1903 until his retirement in 1929. In 1929 he stood for parliament at the General Election in the constituency of the

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for the

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, finishing in third place.

Works

*''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) with Joseph B. Mayor and

W. Warde Fowler William Warde Fowler (16 May 1847 – 15 June 1921) was an English historian and ornithologist, and tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was best known for his works on ancient Roman religion Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varyi ...

*''The Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin with Tables and practical Illustrations'' (1908) with

Edward Vernon Arnold Edward Vernon Arnold (18 July 1857 – 19 September 1926) was a British Indologist and classical scholar. His most important work was a mathematically-based study of the internal chronology of the hymns of the Rigveda. Education After attendin ...

''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) *

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, ''

Ab urbe condita ''Ab urbe condita'' (; 'from the founding of Rome, founding of the City'), or (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is ...

,'' 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)

References

*“Robert Seymour Conway,” ''The Classical Review'', Vol. 47, No. 5 (November 1933), pp. 162–163 1864 births 1933 deaths English classical scholars Classical philologists People educated at the City of London School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Classical scholars of the University of Manchester Scholars of Latin literature Presidents of the Classical Association {{UK-linguist-stub