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8 unusual facts about Martin Conway


Allington Castle

Towards the end of the 16th century whilst under the ownership of the Wyatt family the castle was badly damaged by fire, remaining largely derelict until 1905 when it was restored by the architects W. D. Caroe and Philip Tilden for Sir Martin Conway.

Conway Island

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, an English mountaineer and a pioneer of polar skiing during his crossing of Vestspitsbergen in 1896.

Joris Carolus

Martin Conway argued in 1901 that Carolus’ chart indicated that he had discovered Edge Island; but, as Wielder points out, Conway was ignorant of a map (engraved in 1612) by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, which illustrated a coastline to the east of Spitsbergen.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Léon Degrelle

Collaboration in Belgium: Leon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement, 1940-1944 by Martin Conway (1993); ISBN 0-300-05500-5.

Martin Conway

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856–1937), English art critic, politician and mountaineer

Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents

Martin Conway describes the portrayal of a dignified man marked by a grave expression and deep "furrows ploughed by seventy years of labour and sorrow".

Snow Lake, Pakistan

Martin Conway, the first foreign visitor, gave Snow Lake the name in 1892.



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