CONYERS, Dorothea; novelist; b 1873; dau. of Col. J. Blood Smyth, Fedamore, Co. Limerick; m. 1st, 1892, Col Charles Conyers (d. 1916), Royal Irish Fusiliers, son of Grady Conyers, Castletoun Conyers, Co. Limerick; 2nd, 1917, Capt. J. White. Nantenan. Co. Limerick. Pubns.: The Thorn Bit; The Boy. some Horses and a Girl; Peter's Pedigree; The Strayings of Sandy; Conversion of Concregan; For Henry of Navarre; Some Impostors and Tinker; The Arrival of Antony; Sally: Further Strayings of Sandy: Old Andy; Recollections of Sport in Ireland; A Mixed Pack; Meave; The Trading of Gannymeade Bun, 1917; The Blighting of Bartram, 1918; B.E.N., 1919; Sporting Reminiscences, 1919; Tiranogue, 1919. Recns.: hunting, skating, tennis, fishing, fond of opera. Res.: Nantenan, Co. Limerick.