page_title: Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: English: 1894 map by Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856–1937) based on his 1892 survey of area around w:Hispar Glacier,w:Bagrot Valley, w:Hunza Valley and w:Nagar Valley. Karakoram Himalayas. Note: the map is now known to have substantial errors and many locations are now named differently.
context_page_description: 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, 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, ′′Art Treasures of Soviet Russia, and Giorgione as a Landscape Painter.
context_section_description: From 1884 to 1887 Conway was Professor of Art at University College, Liverpool; and from 1901 to 1904 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University. He was knighted in 1895 for his efforts in mapping 5,180 square km of the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas three years earlier.
  In 1889 he published a book concerning his research on Albrecht Dürer. He was assisted in this by the polymath Lina Eckenstein who was the sister of a fellow mountaineer.
  Conway was the first Director-General of the Imperial War Museum and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1922 to 1937. His photograph collection formed the basis of the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He was also responsible for the restoration of Allington Castle.
caption: Conway's Karakoram map showing the environs of the Hispar Glacier, based on his 1892 survey
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