Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington was born on April 12, 1856. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
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 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…