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Hugh Conway
writer
- Birth name:
- Frederick John Fargus
- Born:
- 1847-12-26, Bristol, England, UK
- Died:
- 1885-05-15, Monte Carlo, Monaco
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
A Christmas-week baby of 1847, Hugh Conway drew his first breath in Bristol’s foggy harbor streets, then spent the next thirty-seven years spinning tales that outlived him by decades. Page-turners such as *El recuerdo de aquella noche* (brought to screens in 1945), the silent-era chiller *Aunt Rachel* (1920), and the melodrama *The Last Rose of Summer* (also 1920) still carry his byline, though the man himself cashed his final chips in Monte Carlo on 15 May 1885, the Mediterranean sun setting over a roulette wheel he never got to play again.
