400 CONWAY CONWAY, CONWAY OF RAGLEY, and CONWAY OF CONWAY CASTLE BARONY. I. Edward Conway, s. and h. of Sir John C, of . . Ragley, co. Warwick, sometime Gov. of Ostend, by ^ ^' Helen.da.of Sir FulkeGREViLLE, of Beauchamp's Court, ^ ^ ^-,„_„ CO. Warwick, being Col. of a regt. of Foot at the taking
ibLUUIN iL.r . ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^g knighted there, 22 or(^) 27 June 1596,
I. 1627. by the Earl of Essex; Lieut. Gov. of the Brill, 1599- 1 609 ; sue. his father 4 Oct. 1 603 ; was sometime in com- mand of the English forces in the Netherlands; M.P.for Penryn 1610-1 i,and for Evesham 1621-22, and 1624-25; was on an embassy to Brussels and to Prague in 1620; P.C. 28 June 1622; Sec. of State, Jan. 1622/3-28. A Commissioner of the Council of War 1624, and Gov. of the Isle of Wight 1624 till his death. On 24 Mar. 1624/5, he was cr. BARON CONWAY OF RAGLEY, co. Warwick.C") Lord Lieut, and Vice Admiral of Hants, 1625 till his death. On 15 Mar. 1626/7, he was cr. VISCOUNT KILLULTAGH, co. Antrim [I.], and on 26 June 1627, VISCOUNT CONWAY OF CONWAY CASTLE, co. Carnarvon. Lord Presi- dent OF THE Council 14 Dec. 1628 till his death.(') He ;»., istly, about 1593, Dorothy, widow of Edward Bray, da. of Sir John (or William) Tracy, of Toddington, co. Gloucester, by Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Corse Court. She was bur. 5 Mar. 161 2, at Arrow, co. Warwick. He ;«., 2ndly, before 30 Dec. 1619, Katherine, widow of John West, citizen and grocer, of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, da. of Giles Hueriblock. [or Hambler], of Ghent, but by her had no issue. Herf'. 3, and was bur. 12 Jan. 1630/1, at Arrow, aged 67. C^) Will dat. 28 July 1629, pr. 12 Nov. 1 63 1, and possibly again in Aug. 1660. His widow d. at Acton, Midx., 30 June, and was bur. there 5 July 1639. M.I. Will, leaving a great part of her fortune to charitable uses, dat. 1637, pr. 19 July 1639. BARONY. 2. Edward (Conway), Baron Conway of Ragley, , - s. and h. ap. by ist wife, was bap. 10 Aug. 1594, at ^^- ^°^ Arrow; was knighted 25 Mar. 161 8, at Whitehall; (») Robert RadclyfFe, later Earl of Sussex; William Howard, later Lord Howard of Effingham; Henry Lennard, later Lord Dacre; Horatio Vere, later Lord Vere; Oliver Lambert, later Lord Lambert; Richard Wenman, later Lord Wenman; and William Hervey, later Lord Hervey of Kidbrook, were knighted with him. To these are added in Shaw's Knights, " Lord Herbert " and " Lord Burke," whom the Editor cannot identify with certainty. V.G. (*>) In Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records, this creation is (erroneously) given as 24 Mar. 1623/4. V.G. C^) For this and other great offices of state see vol. ii, Appendix D. {^) King James I used to say in jest that he had "a Lord Treasurer (the Ear! of Suffolk) that could not cast accounts; and a Secretary (Lord Conway) that could not write his name." (Lloyd, 1665). V.G.
