CONWAY, HENRY SEYMOUR ,1721-1795), British soldier and statesman, sat in the Irish parliament from 1741 to as member for Antrim, and in the British House of Commons from 1741 to 1784 for various constituencies. In he went to Ireland as secretary to the lord-lieutenant, but after returning to England in the following year he was brought into dis credit by the complete failure of an abortive expedition he par ticipated in against Rochfort. As lieutenant-general he served under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in the campaigns of His opposition in parliament to the views of the court on the Wilkes case led to his being deprived of his military command and of his appointment in the royal household.
In the Rockingham ministry of 1765 Conway took office as secretary of State, with the leadership of the House of Commons. In the dispute with the American colonies his sympathies were with the latter, and in '766 he carried the repeal of the Stamp Act. In Jan. 1768, offended by the growing influence of the Bedford fac tion which joined the Government, Conway resigned the seals of office, though he was persuaded by the king to remain a member of the cabinet and "Minister of the House of Commons." When Lord North became premier in 177o, Conway resigned from the cabinet and was appointed to the command of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. In 1772 he became governor of Jersey. In 1781 his opposition to Lord North's American policy brought about the resignation of the premier, and in the Rockingham Govern ment that followed, Gen. Conway became commander-in-chief with a seat in the cabinet. 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 on July 9, See Horace Walpole, Letters, ed. P. Cunningham (9 vols., 1857) the duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George III. (4 vols.,