Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

British politician

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1856

Place of Birth: Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1937

Profession: politician, historian, university teacher, cartographer, art historian, mountaineer, explorer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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).



Alternative names	Alessandro Bassano
Description	British photographer
Date of birth/death	1 May 1829	21 October 1913
Location of birth/death	London	London
Authority control	: Q2833085 VIAF: 226413323 ISNI: 0000 0003 6340 7636 ULAN: 500014526 LCCN: no2005051540 Oxford Dict.: 66743 WorldCat