Frederick William Conway

Frederick William Conway (1782–1853) was an Irish journalist, newspaper founder and editor.

Conway was probably born in Loughrea, County Galway, where his father ran a newspaper. His entire career was in journalism, becoming the editor of the Dublin Evening Post after 1800.[1] In 1813, he founded the Dublin Political Review and in 1821, The Drama. He was also the proprietor of a newspaper called the "Farmer's Gazette" as of 1846 [2]

Although Conway was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, being a member of the Catholic Association.[3] he incurred the wrath of Daniel O'Connell who nicknamed him "Castle Conway" in reference to a rumoured pension he received from the British Administration in Ireland based in Dublin Castle.[4] He served as a witness in "Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen" in 1844.[5]

He amassed a library of books, manuscripts and incunabula, the sale of which went on for twenty-five days after his death in Dublin, aged seventy-one (many of the books went to the library of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and other libraries in Ireland). He collected from a wide variety of topics, largely theology from the Thirteenth to Fifteenth centuries.[6]

References
  1. O'Connell, Daniel, John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor, and Michael Henry Gill. Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland.: A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen v. Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Steele, Charles Gavan Duffy, Rev. Thomas Tierney, Rev. Peter James Tyrrell, Richard Barrett, John Gray, and Thomas Matthew Ray in ... 1843 and ... 1844. Dublin: Hodges and Smith ..., 1844. Print.
  2. Slater, I. Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846:. London: I. Slater, 1846. Print.
  3. O'Connell, Daniel, John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor, and Michael Henry Gill. Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland.: A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen v. Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Steele, Charles Gavan Duffy, Rev. Thomas Tierney, Rev. Peter James Tyrrell, Richard Barrett, John Gray, and Thomas Matthew Ray in ... 1843 and ... 1844. Dublin: Hodges and Smith ..., 1844. Print.
  4. A Dictionary of Irish History, D.J.Hickey & J.E.Doherty, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1980. Pp. page 92. ISBN 0-7171-1567-4
  5. O'Connell, Daniel, John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor, and Michael Henry Gill. Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland.: A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen v. Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Steele, Charles Gavan Duffy, Rev. Thomas Tierney, Rev. Peter James Tyrrell, Richard Barrett, John Gray, and Thomas Matthew Ray in ... 1843 and ... 1844. Dublin: Hodges and Smith ..., 1844. Print.
  6. Kelley, William B. Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review. Vol. 2. Dublin: William B. Kelley, 1857. Print. Ser. 2.
  • Galway Authors, Helen Mahar, 1976
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