April 19, 1937

William Martin Conway, (April 12, 1856 to April 19, 1937), became 1st Baron Conway of Allington in 1931. This was a reward for various accomplishments. Conway was an English adventurer and a scholar. He wrote about of his expeditions around the planet in books like

Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas, (1894).
The Alps from End to End, (1895).

And some other titles we mention, show an analytical approach to culture

History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century, (1884),
The Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer, (1889),
The Crowd in Peace and War, (1915),
Giorgione as a Landscape Painter, (1929).

And in another volume Conway describes an excavation at Beni Hassan, where an Egyptian
necropolis had stored many cat mummies. Upon the revelation of large numbers of these cat mummies, he writes:

'The villlage children came and provided themselves with the most attractive mummies they could find. These they took down the river bank to sell to ...passing travelers. The path became strewn with mummy cloth and bits of cat skulls and bones and fur...'

This book Conway titled The Dawn of Art in the Ancient World: An Archaeological Sketch
(1891). Therein William Martin Conway, is described as "sometime Roscoe Professor of Art at University College, in Liverpool. Later Conway was Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge.