Hugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus (26 December 1847 – 15 May 1885), was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. He had success with his fiction in the early 1880s.
Fargus was intended for his father's business, but at the age of 13 joined a Mersey school ship Conway lent by the Admiralty for training merchant navy officers. He then returned to Bristol, where he was articled to a firm of accountants, until his father's death in 1868, when he took over the family auctioneering business.[1] On 26 August 1871, he married Amy Spark, daughter of a Bristol alderman. They had three sons and a daughter.[2] One son, Archibald, became a first-class cricketer, scholar and clergyman.[3]
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conway, Hugh". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 69.
- ^ ODNB entry by Charles Kent, rev. Graham Law. Retrieved 18 November 2013. Pay-walled.
- ^ "Bristol Farguses". Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
