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SIR WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:MARTIN See also:CONWAY (1856– )  , See also:English See also:art critic and mountaineer, son of the Rev . See also:William See also:Conway, after-wards See also:canon of See also:Westminster, was See also:born at See also:Rochester, and was educated at See also:Repton and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He became interested in See also:early See also:printing and See also:engraving, and in 1880 made a tour of the See also:principal See also:libraries of See also:Europe in pursuit of his studies, the result appearing in 1884 as a See also:History of the See also:Wood-cutters of the See also:Netherlands in the Fifteenth See also:Century . His later See also:works on art included Early Flemish Artists (1887); The See also:Literary Remains of Albrecht Ditrer (1889); The See also:Dawn of Art in the See also:Ancient See also:World (1891), dealing with Chaldaean, See also:Assyrian and See also:Egyptian art; Early Tuscan Artists (1902) . From 1884 to 1887 he was See also:professor of art at University College, See also:Liverpool; and in 1901–1904 he was See also:Slade professor of the See also:fine arts at Cambridge . He was knighted in 1895 . See also:Sir See also:Martin Conway early became a member of the Alpine See also:Club, of which he was See also:president from 1902 to 1904 . In 1892 he See also:beat the climbing See also:record by ascending to a height of 23,000 ft. in the Himalayas in the course of an exploring and See also:mountaineering expedition undertaken under the auspices of the Royal Society, the Royal See also:Geographical Society and the See also:British Association . In 1896-1897 he explored the interior of See also:Spitsbergen, and in the next See also:year he explored and surveyed the Bolivian See also:Andes, climbing Sorata (21,500 ft.) and Illimani (21,200 ft.) . He also ascended See also:Aconcagua (23,080 ft.) and explored Tierra del Fuego . At the See also:Paris See also:exhibition of Igloo he received the See also:gold See also:medal for See also:mountain surveys, and the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 19o5 . His expeditions are described in his Climbing and Exploration in the Kara-Koram Himalayas (1894),The See also:Alps from End to End (1895), The First See also:Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897), The Bolivian Andes (1901), &c.; No See also:Man's See also:Land, a History of Spitsbergen from .

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