CONWAY, SIR WILLIAM MARTIN

(1856), Eng. mountaineer and historian of art, prof. of art at Univ. College, Liverpool (1885-8), and Slade prof. of fine art at Cambridge (1901-4); his works on art include Early Fleming Artists, The Domain of Art, Early Tuscan Artists, etc. On his travels he has written Climbing and Herploration tn the Kara kor am Him a lay as, The Alps from End to End, The First Cro ing of Spitz bergen, Mountain Memories, etc.; also The Crows in Peace and War, The Abbey of St. Denis, etc. Represented Eng. universities in Parliament from 1918. (1842), Baptist minister, lecturer and author, 6. Worthing ton, Ma . He studied law at Yale, leaving there to join the Union forces on the outbreak of the Civil War, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war he practised law in Minnesota, then went to Germany, where he acted as foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune and the Boston Traveler. He returned to the United States in 1870 and resumed the practice of law in Boston till 1879, meantime preparing for admi ion into the Baptist ministry, to whici he was ordained in the latter year. In 1881 he was appointed pastor of the Grace Baptist Church in Philadelphia, with which city his activities henceforth became identified. There he founded the Temple University, whose presidency he occupied from 1888. From 1891 dated his noted pastorate of the Baptist Temple in the same city. He acquired national note as a lecturer and as the author of a number of miscellaneous works. He wrote biographies of Bayard Taylor, C. H. Spurge on, and James G. Blaine, as well as Lives of the Presidents. In 1923 he received the Edward Bok prize of $10,000, known as the Philadelphia Award, established in 1921 for bestowal upon the man or woman in Philadelphia who has contributed services that were of signal help to that city’s civic and social welfare.