About Geoffrey Seymour Conway
Lived 1897 – 1984 (aged 86). Geoffrey Seymour Conway was a rugby union player and military personnel.
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.
Biography 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.
Conway served as a Royal Garrison Artillery officer during World War I and was awarded a Military Cross. Their three sons all went into academia, including historian John S. Conway, the eldest of the brothers.
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Geoffrey Seymour Conway was born on 15 November 1897.
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Geoffrey Seymour Conway died on 3 September 1984.
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Geoffrey Seymour Conway was a rugby union player and military personnel.
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