Conway, William Martin (1856–1937)

British traveller, mountaineer, and writer, from 1901 to 1904 Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge University. He travelled in the East, the Himalayas, the Alps, Spitsbergen, and also the Bolivian Andes (where he ascended Sorata, Illimani, and Cerro Aconcagua), and explored the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego.

His works include Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas (1894), The Bolivian Andes (1901), Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego (1902), The Alps (1904), The Abbey of St Denis (1916), Mountain Memories (1920), The Van Eycks and their Followers (1921), Giorgione as a Landscape Painter (1929), Episodes in a Varied Life (1932), A Pilgrim's Quest for the Divine (1936).

He was the Unionist MP for the Combined English Universities constituency, 1918–31.