George Robert Graham Conway: historian of Mexico: papers
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Country
GB
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen AB24 3AA
Contact information: phone number
0044 (0)1224 27 2598
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
specialcollections@abdn.ac.uk
Reference number
MS 2713
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Title (official language of the state)
George Robert Graham Conway: historian of Mexico: papers
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
George Robert Graham Conway
Date note
16th century/18th century
Transcripts and translations: mid-20th century
Language(s)
eng
spa
Extent
48 volumes
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This fonds is composed of 48 volumes containing George Robert Graham Conway's collection of papers relating to Mexico's early colonial history. It contains facsimiles, transcriptions, translations and research notes on documents held by Mexican archives, especially the Archivio General de la Nación. This documentation is particularly related to Englishmen and others in the Mexican Inquisition from 1520 to 1786. Twenty-five volumes carry the general title, Englishmen and the Mexican Inquisition. However, it also includes transcriptions and translations of correspondence and files of trials of Iberian conversos. See Thornton (1956) for more information.
Archival history
This fonds was deposited in the University of Aberdeen in 1952 by Conway's widow, Anne E. Conway.
Administrative / Biographical history
George Robertson Graham Conway (1873–1951) was born in Southampton and educated at Tauntons School and Hartley University College, Southampton. In 1898, he was appointed resident engineer for the City of Aberdeen, in which role he designed and constructed the Girdleness Outfall Scheme, and was the engineer of the re-building of Union Bridge and other public works in the city. He moved to Mexico in 1907, where he was appointed chief engineer and official representative of the Monterrey Railway, Light and Power Company, and the Monterrey Water and Drainage Company of Monterrey, Mexico; for whom he designed and oversaw the construction of the first extensive water and drainage, electric light and power, and tramway systems for the city. In 1910, he was appointed chief engineer and assistant general manager of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Vancouver (Canada) but returned to Mexico in 1916 as managing director (from 1927, president) of the Mexican Light and Power Company Ltd. and the Mexico Tramways Company, Mexico, D.F. He resigned from the Mexico Tramways Company in 1942 and died in Mexico City on May 20, 1951.
Conway published several professional papers in engineering periodicals, but his real research interest lay in Mexico's Early Colonial history. By 1920, he had built up an extensive personal library and spent over 20,000 dollars having Inquisition records in Mexican archives and elsewhere transcribed and translated.
Conway published several professional papers in engineering periodicals, but his real research interest lay in Mexico's Early Colonial history. By 1920, he had built up an extensive personal library and spent over 20,000 dollars having Inquisition records in Mexican archives and elsewhere transcribed and translated.
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Open, subject to signature accepting conditions of use at reader registration sheet.
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Existence and location of originals
Archivo General de la Nación
Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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