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{{Short description|British politician}}
{{Other people||William Conway (disambiguation){{!}}William Conway|Martin Conway (disambiguation){{!}}Martin Conway}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Conway of Allington
| honorific-suffix    = {{postnom|country=GBR-cats|size=100|Kt|FSA|FRGS}}
| image               = William Martin Conway.jpg
| alt                 = 
| caption             = Conway in 1895
| office              = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined English Universities]]
<br /><small>with [[H. A. L. Fisher]] (1918–1926)<br />and [[Eleanor Rathbone]] (1926–1931)</small>
| term_start          = 28 December 1918
| term_end            = 7 October 1931
| predecessor         = ''Constituency Established''
| successor           = [[Reginald Craddock|Sir Reginald Craddock]]<br />and [[Eleanor Rathbone]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1856|04|12|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], Kent, England
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1937|04|19|1856|04|12|df=y}}
| death_place         = London, England
| nationality         = English
| known_for           = 
| occupation          = Art critic, politician, mountaineer
| children            = [[Agnes Conway]]
}}

'''William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington''', {{postnom|country=GBR-cats|size=100|sep=,|Kt|FSA|FRGS}} (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as '''Sir Martin Conway''', was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and [[mountaineering|mountaineer]], who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and [[Asia]].

Conway occupied several university positions and from 1918 to 1931 was a representative of the [[Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined English Universities]] as a conservative member of the [[House of Commons]].

In 1872 he took up mountain climbing and went on expeditions to [[Spitsbergen]] from 1896 to 1897 and the [[Andes]] of [[Bolivia]] 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).<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Conway Of Allington, William Martin Conway, 1st Baron |encyclopedia=[[The Columbia Encyclopedia]], 6th ed. |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/conway-allington-william-martin-conway-1st-baron |via=[[Encyclopedia.com]]}}</ref>

==Background and education==
Conway was born at [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], England, on 12 April 1856, the son of Reverend William Conway, who later became [[rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[St Margaret's, Westminster]].<ref name="dnb">{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32536|title=Conway, (William) Martin, Baron Conway of Allington|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |year=1907 |title=CONWAY, Sir (William) Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA373 |journal=[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]] |volume=59 |issue= |page=373}}</ref> He was the youngest of three children, having two older sisters, Elizabeth Ann (1852–1916) and Martha (1854–1938).<ref name=dnb/> He was educated at [[Repton]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad|id=CNWY875WM|name=Conway, William Martin}}</ref> where he studied [[mathematics]] and became a close friend of [[Karl Pearson]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Radeska |first=Tijana |date=2017-05-10 |title=Sir William Martin Conway - Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University and the first mountaineer to climb Baltoro Kangri |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/10/sir-william-martin-conway-slade-professor-of-fine-art-at-cambridge-university-and-the-first-mountaineer-to-climb-baltoro-kangri/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=The Vintage News |language=en}}</ref> It is also at Cambridge that he met [[Henry Bradshaw (scholar)|Henry Bradshaw]], then a librarian, and [[John Ruskin]], who introduced Conway to art and the [[Alps]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stansky |first=Peter |date=1976 |title=Art, Industry, and the Aspirations of William Martin Conway |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3826385 |journal=Victorian Studies |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=465–484 |jstor=3826385 |issn=0042-5222}}</ref> He became interested in [[woodcut]]s, [[engraving]] and early printed books; his ''History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century'' was published in 1884.

==Mountaineering==
Conway was a member of the [[Alpine Club (UK)|Alpine Club]], of which he was president from 1902 to 1904.<ref name=eb1911>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Conway, Sir William Martin}}</ref>

In 1892, in the course of an exploring and mountaineering expedition undertaken under the auspices of the [[Royal Society]], the [[Royal Geographical Society]] and the [[British Association]], he made an ascent of a subsidiary summit of [[Baltoro Kangri]] (now in [[Gilgit-Baltistan]], [[Pakistan]]), claiming a [[World altitude record (mountaineering)|world altitude record]] with a height of 23,000&nbsp;ft (7,010 m). However, subsequent measurements have revised his height to 22,322&nbsp;ft (6,804 m).<ref>{{cite book |title=K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain|last=Curran|first=Jim|year=1995 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|isbn=978-0-340-66007-2|pages=50}}</ref>

In 1896–97, accompanied by [[John Walter Gregory|J. W. Gregory]] and others, he explored the interior of [[Spitsbergen]], the first expedition to cross the mainland of the island.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Flett |first=John S. |date=1932 |title=Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=129 |issue=3269 |pages=930–931 |doi=10.1038/129930a0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Mary Katherine |date=2014 |title=From explorer to expert: Sir William Martin Conway's 'delightful sense of something accomplished' |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/from-explorer-to-expert-sir-william-martin-conways-delightful-sense-of-something-accomplished/9E647C58EECAAF60EA711F08F37CF158 |journal=Polar Record |language=en |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=319–329 |doi=10.1017/S0032247413000739 |s2cid=129640377 |issn=0032-2474 |id={{ResearchGatePub|271633327}}|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The following year he explored and surveyed the Bolivian Andes, climbing "Sorata" (known today as [[Ancohuma]], 21,086&nbsp;ft&nbsp;/&nbsp;6,427&nbsp;m) and [[Illimani]] (21,122&nbsp;ft&nbsp;/&nbsp;6,438&nbsp;m). He also attempted [[Aconcagua]] (22,831&nbsp;ft&nbsp;/&nbsp;6,959&nbsp;m), stopping short of the summit by 50 feet; and explored [[Tierra del Fuego]], attempting [[Monte Sarmiento|Sarmiento]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Unsworth|first=Walt|title=Hold the Heights|year=1993|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|isbn=0-340-33913-6|pages=197}}</ref> At the [[Paris Exhibition of 1900]], he received the gold medal for mountain surveys,<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zS-FAAAAIAAJ |title=Warner's Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern |date=1910 |publisher=Werner Company |editor-last=Warner |editor-first=Charles Dudley |editor-link=Charles Dudley Warner |pages=604 |language=en |chapter=Conway, Sir William Martin}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=Sources say "the gold medal", but do not specify the name of the award or who it was awarded by.|date=May 2023}} and in 1905 won a [[Founder's Medal]] of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] for his Spitsbergen exploration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Medals and Awards |url=https://www.rgs.org/about/medals,-awards-and-prizes/medals-award/history-and-past-recipients/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Royal Geographical Society]]}}</ref>

He served as president of the Alpine Club from 1902 to 1904, and became the first president of The [[Alpine Ski Club]] at its inaugural meeting in 1908,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Russel |first=C. A. |date=1972 |title=One hundred years ago |url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1972_files/AJ%201972%20215-218%20Russell%20100YrsAgo.pdf |journal=Alpine Journal |volume=77 |pages=215–218}}</ref> serving until 1911. [[Conway Island]] is named after him.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hattersley-Smith |first=G. |date=1988 |title=Mountaineers and Skiers in British Antarctic Territory Place-names |url=http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1988-89_files/AJ%201988%20184-190%20Hattersley-Smith%20Antarctic.pdf |journal=Alpine Journal |volume=93 |pages=184–190}}</ref>

In 1924, Conway evaluated evidence from the [[1924 British Mount Everest expedition|1924 British Mountaineering Expedition]] and believed [[George Mallory]] and [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] had reached the summit of [[Mount Everest|Mt. Everest]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=26 July 1924 |title=Mount Everest Expedition |work=Warwick & Warwickshire Advertiser & Leamington Gazette |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001670/19240726/088/0005 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

==Academic career==
[[File:1894 Bagrot Hunza Nagyr and Hispar Glacier by Conway.jpg|thumb|upright=1.7|Conway's Karakoram map showing the environs of the [[Hispar Glacier]], based on his 1892 survey]]
From 1884 to 1887 Conway was a Professor of Art at [[University College, Liverpool]]; and from 1901 to 1904 he was [[Slade Professor of Fine Art]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. He was [[knight]]ed in 1895 for his efforts in mapping 5,180 square km of the [[Karakoram]] Range in the [[Himalayas]] three years earlier.

In 1889 he published a book concerning his research on [[Albrecht Dürer]]. He was assisted in this by the polymath [[Lina Eckenstein]] who was the sister of a [[Oscar Eckenstein|fellow mountaineer]].<ref name="Chance2005">{{cite book |author=Johnson |first=Penelope D. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QrnjT2NT5MC&pg=PA55 |title=Women Medievalists and the Academy |publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press |year=2005 |isbn=0-299-20750-1 |editor-last=Chance |editor-first=Jane |editor-link=Jane Chance |page=58 |chapter=Lina Eckenstein (1857-1931) |lccn=2004025225}}</ref>

During the early 1900s, he was active within the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]]. He gave many presentations at meetings and served multiple terms on its council, once in {{Year range|1916|1917}},<ref>{{Cite book |last=Society of Antiquaries of London |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105912 |title=Proceedings Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London |series=2nd Series |date=1915 |volume=28 |pages=218 |author-link=Society of Antiquaries of London}}</ref> and again from {{Year range|1918|1922}} as a vice president of the society.<ref>Multiple sources:

* {{Cite book |last=Society of Antiquaries of London |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105914 |title=Proceedings Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London |series=2nd Series |date=1917 |volume=30 |pages=208 |author-link=Society of Antiquaries of London}}
* {{Cite book |last=Society of Antiquaries of London |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529648 |title=Proceedings Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London |series=2nd Series |date=1918 |volume=31 |pages=196 |author-link=Society of Antiquaries of London}}
* {{Cite book |last=Society of Antiquaries of London |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529649 |title=Proceedings Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London |series=2nd Series |date=1919 |volume=32 |pages=170 |author-link=Society of Antiquaries of London}}
* {{Cite journal |date=1921 |title=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_antiquaries-journal_1921-07_1_3 |journal=The Antiquaries Journal |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=264–270 |doi=10.1017/S0003581500002390|s2cid=246042223 }}</ref>

He also stood as president of the [[Kent Archaeological Society]] for some time in the 1920s and 1930s. He became president of the society in 1923,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kent Archaeological Society |author-link=Kent Archaeological Society |date=1937 |title=Annual Report and Accounts for the Year 1936 |url=https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/49/annual-report-and-accounts-year-1936 |journal=Archaeologia Cantiana |volume=49 |pages=xxxvii-xxxvii }}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and announced in 1930 his wish to step down, citing declining health, although he continued as president after a request by the council.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kent Archaeological Society |author-link=Kent Archaeological Society |date=1931 |title=Annual Report and Accounts for the Year 1930 |url=https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/43/annual-report-and-accounts-year-1930 |journal=Archaeologia Cantiana |volume=43 |pages=xli-li}}</ref> He again announced his retirement and stepped down in 1936, though he agreed to continue as a vice president.<ref name=":0" />

Conway was an art collector; he began collecting in 1887.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-30 |title=Who made the Conway Library? |url=https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Digital Media |publisher=[[The Courtauld Institute of Art|The Courtauld]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> Conway was the first Director-General of the [[Imperial War Museum]] and a trustee of the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]] from 1922 to 1937.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(William) Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01009/william-martin-conway-1st-baron-conway-of-allington |website=[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]}}</ref> His photograph collection formed the basis of the [[Conway Library]] at the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Higgon |first=Katharine |date=2006 |title=Persistence of Antiquity |url=https://assets.courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/31144633/pa-bio-higgon1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104200156/https://assets.courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/31144633/pa-bio-higgon1.pdf |archive-date=Nov 4, 2021 |website=[[The Courtauld Institute of Art|The Courtauld]]}}</ref> He was also responsible for the restoration of [[Allington Castle]] in Kent.

==Political career==
Conway had been involved in politics for some time, consorting with both major parties allegedly in pursuit of a knighthood and a barony; he received both. He was mentioned as a possible [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate for [[Wolverhampton South (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton South]] in early 1900, but withdrew his candidature 'owing to domestic circumstances'.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|title=Election intelligence|date=9 February 1900|page=10|issue=36061|column=}}</ref> In 1902 Conway was involved in a deal with [[Bolivia]]n president [[José Manuel Pando]] regarding a tract of land named the Caupolican concession, which was rich in rubber. The concession was divided between Conway and American investors that were interested in the [[Acre (state)|Acre region]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=The New Development Of Bolivia |journal=India Rubber World |date=1902 |volume=26|page=223|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/India_rubber_world_%28IA_indiarubberworld26phil%29.pdf}}</ref> In 1907, Conway became a director of The Inambari Para-Rubber Estates Limited, which exported [[natural rubber|latex]] products from the [[Inambari River]] in [[Peru]]. He was elected [[Coalition Conservative|Unionist]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for the [[Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined English Universities]] in 1918, serving until 1931, when he was raised to the [[peerage]] as '''Baron Conway of Allington''', of [[Allington, Kent|Allington]] in the County of Kent, in the [[1931 Dissolution Honours|Dissolution Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33772 |page=7409 |date=17 November 1931 }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33778 |date=8 December 1931 |page=7905 }}</ref>

He died in London on 19 April 1937.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Complete Peerage |title-link=The Complete Peerage |publisher=The St. Catherine Press Ltd. |year=1940 |editor-last=Doubleday |editor-first=H. A. |volume=XIII |location=London |page=[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/371308/?offset=0#page=504&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= 500] |editor-last2=De Walden |editor-first2=Lord Howard |editor-link2=Baron Howard de Walden |via=[[FamilySearch]]}}</ref> The title became extinct on his death.<ref>{{Cite web |editor-last=Beamish |editor-first=David |editor-link=David Beamish |title=Chronological list 1901–1950 |url=http://www.peerages.info/peerages2.htm |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=United Kingdom Peerage Creations}}</ref>

==Works==

===Scholarly works===
* ''History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century'', 1884
* [https://archive.org/details/earlyflemisharti00conw_0 ''Early Flemish Artists''], 1887
* ''The Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer'', 1889
* ''The Dawn of Art in the Ancient World'', 1891, dealing with [[Chaldean Christians|Chaldean]], [[Assyria]]n and Egyptian art
* [https://archive.org/details/EarlyTuscanArt12thTo15thC/page/n9/mode/2up ''Early Tuscan Art''], 1902
* ''The Crowd in Peace and War'', 1915
* ''Art Treasures of Soviet Russia'', 1925
* ''Giorgione as a Landscape Painter'', 1929

===Mountaineering and travel works===
* [https://archive.org/details/climbingandexpl00mccogoog ''Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas''], 1894<ref>{{cite journal |date=January 5, 1895 |title=''Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas''. Maps and Scientific Reports. By W. M. Conway. (Fisher Unwin.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1dDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA20 |journal=The Athenaeum |type=Review |issue=3506 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=E. D. |date=1895 |title=Mr. Conway in the Himalayas |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00369229508732747 |journal=Scottish Geographical Magazine |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=17–19 |doi=10.1080/00369229508732747 |issn=0036-9225|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''The Alps from End to End'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ1-AAAAIAAJ 1895] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=AKVCAAAAIAAJ 1900] (Also published as ''The Alps'', [[gutenberg:39542|1904]] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZipCx3QkD8C 1910])
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CMEEAAAAMAAJ The First Crossing of Spitsbergen]'', 1897
* [https://archive.org/details/bolivianandesar01conwgoog ''The Bolivian Andes''], 1901<ref>{{cite journal |date=August 3, 1901 |title=''The Bolivian Andes: a Record of Climbing and Exploration in the Years 1898 and 1899''. By Sir Martin Conway. (Harper and Brothers.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzOwLaPNAE4C&pg=PA159 |journal=The Athenaeum |type=Review |issue=3849 |pages=159–160}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Church |first=George Earl |date=1901 |title=Review of ''The Bolivian Andes'' |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1775366 |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=612–614 |doi=10.2307/1775366 |issn=0016-7398 |jstor=1775366|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration'', 1902<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 11, 1902 |title=''Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego''. By Sir Martin Conway. (Cassell & Co.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evVrDCTWoDIC&pg=PA477 |journal=The Athenaeum |type=Review |issue=3911 |pages=477–478}}</ref>
* ''Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century'', 1904<ref>{{cite journal |date=April 29, 1905 |title=''Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century''. By Sir W. Martin Conway. (Hakluyt Society.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4vs4AYf5rUC&pg=522 |journal=The Athenaeum |type=Review |issue=4044 |pages=522–523}}</ref>
* ''No Man's Land, a History of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country'', 1906
* ''Mountain Memories'', 1920
*  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xI-BAAAAIAAJ Palestine and Morocco]'', 1923

===Autobiography===

*  ''Episodes in a Varied Life'', 1932
*  ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t3hx3z79s&seq=9 The Sport of Collecting]'', 1914

==References==
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*{{Cite web |last=Vocelle |first=Laura A. |date=August 30, 2012 |title=CAT MUMMIES AND TOMB PAINTINGS AT BENI HASSAN |url=https://www.thegreatcat.org/cat-mummies-and-tomb-paintings-at-beni-hassan/ |website=The Great Cat}}

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