Geoffrey Seymour Conway
| Date of birth | 15 November 1897 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Llandaff, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 September 1984 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stranraer, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Fettes College | ||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Robert S. Conway (father) Elsie Conway (wife) John S. Conway (son) | ||||||||||||||||
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Lieutenant colonel Geoffrey Seymour Conway (15 November 1897 – 3 September 1984) was an English military officer, scholar and international rugby union player of the 1920s.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born Llandaff, Wales, Conway was the son of classical scholar Robert Seymour Conway, at the time a Cardiff-based academic. He was educated at Edinburgh's Fettes College and studied for an honours degree in classics at the University of Cambridge, where he gained rugby blues.[3]
Conway served as a Royal Garrison Artillery officer during World War I and was awarded a Military Cross.[3]
A forward, Conway was capped 18 times for England from 1920 to 1927, playing in both the second and back rows of the scrum. His England career included three Five Nations grand slam-winning campaigns and a match against the All Blacks at Twickenham, which was one of only two occasions he finished on a losing team. He made further representative appearances for the Durham and Warwickshire county sides.[3]
Conway met his wife, phycologist Elsie Conway, while both were on the academic staff of University College, Durham.[4] Their three sons all went into academia, including historian John S. Conway, the eldest of the brothers.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "G. S. Conway As Captain?". Daily Mirror. 22 December 1926.
- ^ "G. S. Conway To Leave Rugby". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 7 June 1924.
- ^ a b c "G. S. Conway to be General Manager". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 13 August 1937.
- ^ ""Geoff" Conway Engaged". North Mail and Newcastle Daily Chronicle. 5 August 1927.
- ^ Bergen, Doris (1 September 2017). "John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist – Contemporary Church History Quarterly".
External links
[edit]- Geoffrey Seymour Conway at ESPNscrum
- 1897 births
- 1984 deaths
- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- Rugby union locks
- Rugby union number eights
- Rugby union players from Cardiff
- Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
- Warwickshire County RFU players
- Durham County RFU players
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- People educated at Fettes College
- Royal Garrison Artillery officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Manchester Rugby Club players