William Augustus Conway

(1789-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Conway, William Augustus, 1789-1828 NRA: Conway, William Augustus (1789-1828) Actor DNB: Conway, William Augustus [real name William Augustus Rugg] (1789-1828), actor LBT ID: WiConwa1828 VIAF ID: 57546538 LOC ID: n84229972	B/BAP: 1789 DIED: 1828
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Originally Rugg; he was an English actor at Covent Garden, and from 1823 in the United States. The nature of his relationship with the elderly Hester Thrale Piozzi has been disputed; he died a suicide.
REFERENCES TO William Augustus Conway: Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Hazlitt Cross-questioned” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 3 (August 1818) 550-52 Found 1: ¶ 23 William Jerdan to the third Marquis of Hertford, [October 1822] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 10: Robert Burns Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Ch. 16: A. Conway Found 4: ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 22