The Lord Conway of Allington | |
|---|---|
 Conway in 1895 | |
| Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities
with H. A. L. Fisher (1918–1926) and Eleanor Rathbone (1926–1931) | |
| In office 28 December 1918 – 7 October 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency Established |
| Succeeded by | Sir Reginald Craddock and Eleanor Rathbone |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 April 1856 Rochester, Kent, England |
| Died | 19 April 1937 (aged 81) London, England |
| Children | Agnes Conway |
| Occupation | Art critic, politician, mountaineer |
William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, 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 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 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).[1]