Conway

Conway, MONCURE DANIEL, American author, born in Virginia in 1832, entered the Methodist ministry in 1850, but, after a course at the Cambridge divinity school, settled as a Unitarian preacher in Washington in 1854, and in Cincinnati in 1857. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and in 1863 came to England to lecture on the war. In London he became head of the South Place Institute (for advanced religious thought), and has published The Rejected Stone (1861), The Golden Hour (1862), Republican Superstitions (1872), Idols and Idols (1877), Demonology and Devil-lore (1879), Thomas Carlyle (1881), Pine and Palm (1887), and A Life of Paine (1892), whose works he also edited (2 vols. 1892). He returned to America in 1897.