Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington


William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington , known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer.

Conway was born at Rochester, England, onApril 1856, the son of Reverend William Conway, who later became rector of St. Margarets, Westminster. He was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and became a close friend of Karl Pearson. He became interested in woodcuts, engraving and early printed books his History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century was published in 1884.

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