tenure of command. In 1780 and
1781 he took an active part in opposition to Lord North's American
policy, and it was largely as the result of his motion on the 22nd of
February in the latter year, demanding the cessation of the war against
the colonies, when the ministerial majority was reduced to one, that
Lord North resigned office. In the Rockingham government that followed
General Conway became commander-in-chief with a seat in the cabinet; and
he retained office under Shelburne when Rockingham died a few months
later. On Pitt's elevation to the premiership, Conway supported Fox in
opposition; but after the dissolution of parliament in 1784 he retired
from political life. He was made field marshal in 1793, and died at
Henley-on-Thames on the 9th of July 1795. Conway married in 1747
Caroline, daughter of General Campbell (afterwards duke of Argyll), and
widow of the earl of Aylesbury. He had one daughter, Anne, who married
John Darner, son of Lord Milton, and who inherited a life interest in
Strawberry Hill under the will of Horace Walpole.

Conway was personally one of the most popular men of his day. He was
handsome, conciliatory and agreeable, and a man of refined taste and
untarnished honour. As a soldier he was a dashing officer, but a poor
general. He was weak, vacillating and ineffective as a politician,
lacking in judgment and decision, and without any great parliamentary
talent. In his later years he dabbled in literature and the drama, and
interested himself in arboriculture in his retirement at
Henley-on-Thames.

See Horace Walpole, _Letters_, edited by P. Cunningham (9 vols.,
London, 1857), many of the letters being addressed to Conway; _Memoirs
of the Last Ten years of the Reign of George II._ (2 vols., London,
1822); _Memoirs of the Reign of George III._, edited by Sir D. le
Marchant (4 vols., London, 1845); _Journal of the Reign of George
III._, 1771-1783 (2 vols., London, 1859). See also the duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, _Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George
III._ (4 vols., London, 1853). Much information about Conway will also
be found in the biographies of his leading contemporaries, Rockingham,
Shelburne, Chatham, Pitt and Fox. (R. J. M.)

CONWAY, HUGH, the nom-de-plume of FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS (1847-1885),
English novelist, who was born at Bristol on the 26th of December 1847,
the son of an auctioneer. He was intended for his father's business, but
at the