Sir Richard Conway

In the short story The Coming of Mr Quin, Sir Richard Conway is a guest at the New Year's Eve house party at Royston hosted by Tom Evesham which forms the main setting for the events in the story.

Sir Richard is described as a "tall soldierly man" and is in fact a well-known soldier, traveller and sportsman.

Through the course of the evening at the house party, conversation turned to the former owner of the house, Derek Capel, a successful person in the prime of his life who suddenly and mysteriously committed suicide although just a few minutes earlier he had announced to some friends that he was engaged to be married. By coincidence, Sir Richard was, with Tom Evesham, also house guests of Derek Capel at Royston at that time of his suicide.