G. R. G. (George Robert Graham) Conway

Born in Southampton in 1873, George Robert Graham Conway trained as a civil engineer at Taunton's School and Hartley University College before working with James Mansergh and then serving as resident engineer for Aberdeen. His engineering career took him to Monterrey, Vancouver, and Mexico City, where he held senior posts with major light, power, water, and tramway companies and became well known in Mexico's public-works world.

Alongside that demanding career, he devoted enormous time and personal expense to researching early Mexican history. He became especially known for transcribing and translating archival material on the Mexican Inquisition and on foreigners, including English seamen, who were caught up in it. He also wrote articles and monographs on historical figures from Mexico's past, bringing little-known documents to a wider audience.

Conway retired in the 1940s and died in Mexico City on May 20, 1951. Remembered both as an accomplished engineer and as a careful historian of Mexico, he left behind a body of work that feels unusually grounded: scholarly, curious, and shaped by a lifetime spent close to the places he wrote about.