William Martin Conway, 1st (and last) Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 at Rochester, England – 19 April 1937 at London), English art critic, politician and mountaineer, was the son of Reverend William Conway, afterwards canon of Westminster.
W.M. Conway was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and became a close friend of Karl Pearson. He became interested in early printing and engraving, and in ...
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William Martin Conway, 1st (and last) Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 at Rochester, England – 19 April 1937 at London), English art critic, politician and mountaineer, was the son of Reverend William Conway, afterwards canon of Westminster.
W.M. Conway was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and became a close friend of Karl Pearson. He became interested in early printing and engraving, and in 1880 made a tour of the principal libraries of Europe in pursuit of his studies, the result appearing in 1884 as a History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century. His later works on art included:
From 1882 to 1885, Conway was a Cambridge University extension lecturer. He climbed extensively in the Alps as an undergraduate, and was elected to the Alpine Club in 1877. (He was president from 1902 to 1904.)
In 1881 he published the Zermatt Pocketbook, the model for a series of Conway and Coolidge's Climbers' Guides, which...
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