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1 mag 2024 · Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major general in 1756 and to lieutenant general in 1759.
16 mag 2024 · Born in 1748 in Sevenoaks, England, Anne Seymour Damer was the only daughter of British General Henry Seymour Conway. Raised in an aristocratic environment, her godfather, famed British writer and historian Horace Walpole, encouraged her to pursue her artistic passions at an early age – specifically sculpting.
22 mag 2024 · A letter from Horace Walpole to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway, dated 10 April 1761, contains one of the few contemporary references to Almack at this period, and indicates that he was already known for the dinners for which he and Edward Boodle later became famous: 'Poor Sir Harry Ballendene is dead; he made a great dinner at Almack ...
8 mag 2024 · Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major general in 1756 and to lieutenant general in 1759.
5 feb 2016 · Presumably the scheme was instigated by the turnpike trustees, though General Henry Seymour Conway of nearby Park Place may have been involved. Around 1763 he had already improved the Henley–Wargrave road (part of the route from London to Bath) by building a stone bridge over the Happy Valley, a picturesque combe on his estate.
6 giorni fa · In 1752 it was purchased by General (afterwards Field-Marshal) the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway, who started the cultivation of lavender in Remenham and established a distillery there.
15 mag 2024 · Conway, Henry Seymour,--1721-1795--Caricatures and cartoons. Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher. ... On his right stands General Conway in military uniform, ...
