Robert Seymour Conway
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Robert Seymour Conway was a British classical scholar and comparative philologist. Born in Stoke Newington
, he was the older brother of Katharine St John Conway
. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria University, Manchester
from 1903 until his retirement in 1929.
Stoke Newington
Stoke Newington is a district in the London Borough of Hackney. It is north-east of Charing Cross.-Boundaries:In modern terms, Stoke Newington can be roughly defined by the N16 postcode area . Its southern boundary with Dalston is quite ill-defined too...
, he was the older brother of Katharine St John Conway
Katharine Glasier
Katharine Glasier was a British socialist journalist.Glasier was born in Stoke Newington as Katharine St John Conway, the second of seven children. Her older brother was Robert Seymour Conway...
. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria University, Manchester
Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...
from 1903 until his retirement in 1929.
Works
- The Italic Dialects, edited with a grammar and glossary. (1897) two volumes
- Virgil's Messianic Eclogue (1907) with Joseph B. Mayor and W. Warde Fowler
- The Restored Pronunciation of Greek and Latin with Tables and practical Illustrations (1908) with Edward Vernon Arnold
- New studies of a great inheritance, being lectures on the modern worth of some ancient writers (1921)
- Harvard Lectures on the Vergilian Age (1928)
- Great Writers of Rome (1930)
- Makers of Europe (1931) James Henry Morgan lectures in Dickinson CollegeDickinson CollegeDickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...
for 1930 - Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, Part I: The Venetic Inscriptions (1933)
- Ancient Italy and Modern Religion (1933) Hibbert Lectures for 1932
- P. Vergili Maronis - Aeneidos, liber primus (1935)