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Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
1856Apr, 12

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English mountaineer, cartographer, and politician (d. 1937)
William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

Conway was occupied on several university positions and from 1918 to 1931 was a representative of the combined English universities as a conservative member in the House of Commons.

In 1872 he took up mountain climbing and went on expeditions to Spitsbergen from 1896 to 1897 and the Bolivian Andes in 1898. He is an author of books on art and exploration, which include Mountain Memories (1920), ′'Art Treasures of Soviet Russia (1925), and Giorgione as a Landscape Painter (1929).

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