William Martin Conway, Baron Conway biography
William Martin Conway, Baron Conway, (born April 12, 1856, Rochester, Kent, England—died April 19, 1937, London), British mountain climber, explorer, and artwork historian whose expeditions ranged from Europe to South America and Asia.
Conway started his climbing profession in 1872 with an ascent of Breithorn within the Alps. In 1892 he mapped 2,000 sq. miles (5,180 sq. km) of the Karakoram Range within the Himalayas, for which achievement he was knighted three years later. He chronicled his feat in Climbing and Exploration within the Karakoram-Himalayas (1894). His traverse of the Alpine vary from Monte Viso to Gross Glockner in 1894 was described in The Alps from End to End (1895), and The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897) data his exploration of the island in 1896–97. During expeditions within the Central and Southern Andes in 1898, Conway climbed Mount Aconcagua (22,831 toes [6,959 m]), the best summit within the Western Hemisphere; Mount Illimani (20,741 toes [6,322 m]); and Mount Illampu (21,066 toes [6,421 m]), and explored the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. He retired from mountaineering in 1901.
Conway was additionally a Slade professor of high-quality arts on the University of Cambridge (1901–04) and a Unionist member of Parliament (1918–31). He was created a baron in 1931; the peerage turned extinct upon his dying. A prolific author, he additionally authored The Zermatt Pocket Book (1881), a information to climbing the Pennine Alps; Early Tuscan Art (1902); and Mountain Memoirs (1920).