The distinguished guest stood to make his speech on a Tuesday morning in November 1895. As he had arrived in Leicester, he told the well-to-do gathering at the town's New Walk Museum, he couldn't help but think it was a place constituted for the making of money.Nothing wrong with that, he added hastily. It was a fact of modern life. But there was a problem, cautioned art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer Sir Martin Conway, at the launch of the Leicester Society of Artists' annual...
