Edward Conway 1594-1655

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Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway 1594-1655 Politician and soldier. Numerous books survive with his armorial stamp; 50 books, together with a ms catalogue of his library listing ca.9900 titles, are in Armagh Public Library. His library was sequestered by the Long Parliament, but bought back by him in 1647; it descended through his daughter to the Marquis of Hastings and was eventually sold at auction in 1868. ODNB. H. R. Plomer, A cavalier’s library, The Library 2nd ser 5 (1904), 158-172. Roy. D. Smith, ‘La conquest du sang real’: Edward, second Viscount Conway’s quest for books in J. Hinks and M. Day (eds), From compositors to collectors (2012), 199-216. L. Erle, Shakespeare and the book trade, 2013, 207-9. Purcell, 93. Armorials database.

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