Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Conway
PC
Lord President of the Council
In office
1628–1631
Monarch Charles I
Preceded by The Earl of Marlborough
Personal details
Born Edward Conway
1564 (1564)
Died 3 January 1631 (1631-01-04)
St. Martin's Lane, London, England
Resting place Arrow, Warwickshire, England
Nationality English

Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway PC (1564 – 3 January 1631) was an English soldier and statesman.

Life

He was the son and heir of Sir John Conway of Arrow, and his wife Ellen or Eleanor, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire.[1]

He commanded a foot regiment at the sack of Cadiz in 1596, where he was knighted. He then served as governor of Brill, an English Cautionary Town near Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his daughter Brilliana (who married Robert Harley) was born. In the first parliament held in the reign of James I, he sat as member for Penryn. When Brill was handed back to the States of Holland in 1616, he was given a pension.

He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1622 and made a Secretary of State in January 1623 for five years. In the parliament which convened on 19 February 1624 he was returned for Evesham. He was created Baron Conway, of Ragley, in 1624 or 1625 and Viscount Conway in 1627, and received the Irish peerage title of Viscount Killultagh. No doubt as a result of his time in the Netherlands, he was a supporter of a 'Protestant' foreign policy; he was sent as ambassador to Prague. In 1628, he was appointed Lord President of the Council, a post he held until his death on 3 January 1631. By his wife Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracy of Tedington, Gloucestershire, and widow of Edmund Bray, he had three sons and four daughters. He was succeeded by his son Edward.[1]

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Attribution
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Thomas Prowse
William Maynard
Member of Parliament for Penryn
1610–1611
With: William Maynard
Succeeded by
William Maynard
Sir Francis Crane
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Biggs, 1st Baronet
Anthony Langston
Member of Parliament for Evesham
1624
With: Richard Cresheld
Succeeded by
Richard Cresheld
Anthony Langston
Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Southampton
Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
1625–1631
Succeeded by
The Lord Weston
Preceded by
Robert Naunton
George Calvert
Secretary of State
1623–1628
With: George Calvert 1623–1625
Albertus Morton 1625
John Coke 1625–1628
Succeeded by
The Viscount Dorchester
John Coke
Preceded by
The Earl of Marlborough
Lord President of the Council
1628–1631
Unknown
Next known title holder:
The Earl of Shaftesbury
Preceded by
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
Governor of Brill, The Netherlands.
1596–1616
Vacant
Next known title holder:
unknown
Peerage of England
New creation Viscount Conway
1627–1631
Succeeded by
Edward Conway
Baron Conway
(descended by acceleration)

1624/1625–1628
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Viscount Killultagh
1627–1631
Succeeded by
Edward Conway
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