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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.
- 1737–1793
- The Viscount Weymouth
Marechal-de-campo Henry Seymour Conway (Chelsea, c.1721 – 9 de julho de 1795) foi um General e político britânico, irmão do 1º marquês de Hertford e primo de Horace Walpole. Começou sua carreira militar na Guerra de Sucessão Austríaca e atingindo a patente de Marechal-de-campo em 1793.
Henry Seymour Conway was a military commander and prominent British politician who urged moderate treatment of the American colonies. Conway began his military career while still in his teens and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Contributed by. Hawkins, Richard. 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.
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 was born at Ragley Hall, the ancestral home of the Seymours, one of whom, Sir Edward Seymour, was Governor of Jersey from 1537 to 1550. Henry's father, Francis, was the first Baron Conway and his mother, Francis's third wife, was Charlotte, daughter of Sir John Shorter, a Lord Mayor of London.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Henry Seymour Conway, 1721–95, English soldier and politician; nephew of Robert Walpole. Early in his life he entered upon concurrent and distinguished military and parliamentary careers. He fell into disfavor with George III for defending John Wilkes and was dismissed (1764) from his commands.
