Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1850. _d._ Australia 1857 aged 89.
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ARMITAGE, REV. ROBERT. R. of Easthope, Salop 1843 to death;
published anonymously _Doctor Hookwell or the Anglo-Catholic
family_, _3 vols._ 1842; _The Penscellwood papers comprising
essays on the souls and future life of animals_, _2 vols._ 1846;
_Ernest Singleton_ 1848; _Dr. Johnson his religious life and his
death_ 1850. _d._ Easthope 2 Feb. 1852 aged 47.
ARMSTRONG, ALEXANDER. 2 Lieutenant Royal Irish Artillery 7 July
1783; major 24 July 1800 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full
pay; general 30 June 1854. _d._ Green park, Bath 2 Dec. 1861 aged
94.
ARMSTRONG, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Edmund Armstrong of
Gallen, King’s county 1754–1827_). _b._ Gallen Priory 19 Oct.
1786; sheriff of King’s county 1811 and 1836; receiver general of
stamps in Ireland 1831–41; M.P. for King’s county 1841–52; created
baronet 18 Sep. 1841. _d._ Chester 27 Jany. 1863.
ARMSTRONG, EDMUND JOHN. _b._ Mornington house, Upper Merrion st.
Dublin 23 July 1841; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; took 1st prize in
Latin and Greek verse; pres. of the Undergraduate philosophical
society; received gold medal of Royal historical society Nov.
1864; author of _Poems_ 1865, new ed. 1877. _d._ Kingstown near
Dublin 24 Feb. 1865. _Life and letters of E. J. Armstrong, edited
by G. F. Armstrong_ 1877, _portrait_.
ARMSTRONG, JAMES WELLS. Lieut, col. 4 depôt battalion 2 Oct. 1855 to
16 Oct. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 1 Nov.
1871 to 25 Nov. 1876; deputy adjutant general for auxiliary forces
25 Nov. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ 98 St. George’s sq.
Westminster 12 April 1880.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. _b._ Ingram, Northumberland 13 Oct. 1775; a
millwright and engineer at Bristol, city surveyor there 1831 to
death; A.I.C.E. 1828. _d._ 17 March 1854.
ARMSTRONG, RIGHT REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Armstrong of London,
M.D._) _b._ Bishopwearmouth 22 Aug. 1813; ed. at Charterhouse
1827; Crewe exhibitioner at Linc. coll. Oxf. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A.
1850; C. of Clifton 1838–41; priest vicar of Exeter cathedral
1841; R. of St. Paul’s, Exeter 1843; V. of Tidenham, Gloucs. 1845;
originated female penitentiary which was opened at Clewer 1849;
founded _National Miscellany_ a monthly religious periodical 1853,
it was united with the _Illustrated London magazine_ 1855; bishop
of Grahamstown, South Africa 25 October 1853; consecrated in St.
Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov. 1853; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6
Dec. 1853; arrived at Grahamstown 26 Oct. 1854; author of _Sermons
on the festivals_ 1845; _Parochial sermons_ 1854; wrote many and
edited all the _Tracts for the Christian seasons_, 2 _series_
1848–50. (_m._ 22 Feb. 1843 Frances eld. dau. of Edward Whitmore).
_d._ Grahamstown 16 May 1856. _A memoir of John Armstrong, D.D. by
Rev. T. T. Carter_ 1857, _portrait_; _G. M. i_, 376–82 (1856);
_Guardian 20 Dec. 1882 p._ 1809.
ARMSTRONG, VERY REV. JOHN (_brother of Sir Andrew Armstrong_). _b._
June 1791; archdeacon of Clonfert 24 June 1845; dean of Kilfenora
Jany. 1847 to death. _d._ 16 June 1856.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Provisional ensign Cape mounted rifles 19 March
1835; formed and commanded a corps of irregular horse known as
“Armstrong’s Horse” during Kaffir war 1852–53; C.B. 13 March 1867,
M.G. 6 July 1867. _d._ Stoulgrove house, near Chepstow 28 June
1874 aged 55.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN WARNEFORD. _b._ King’s county 28 Aug. 1770; captain
King’s county militia 19 Jany. 1798; betrayed Henry and John
Sheares barristers of Dublin to the Government 1798; they were
hung for high treason 14 July 1798; received pension of £500 per
annum 1798 to death. _d._ 1858. _Howell’s State trials xxvii_,
255–398 (1820).
ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH. _b._ Bewcastle Cumberland 21 Sep. 1816; engine
driver on Liverpool and Manchester railway 1836–40; superintendent
of locomotive carriage and wagon departments of Great Western
Railway June 1864 to death; M.I.M.E. 1857, M.I.C.E. 1877. _d._
Matlock Bath 5 June 1877. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xlix_, 255–58 (1877).
ARMSTRONG, REV. NICHOLAS. Rector of St. James’s, Dublin; an agent of
the Reformation society 1831; the most powerful of Irish
declaimers; an Irvingite apostle 18 Jany. 1834; apostle to Ireland
and Greece 1838; author of _Two letters to a friend in answer to
the inquiry What is the use of the gifts of the spirit_ 1832;
_Sermons preached in the Catholic Apostolic church Gordon Square_
1857; _Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels_ 1870; _Sermons on
various subjects_, 1870–79. _d._ Albury heath, Surrey 9 Oct. 1879
in 78 year. _Rev. Edward Miller’s History and doctrines of
Irvingism_, _vol. i_; _R. S. Brooke’s Recollections of the Irish
church_ (1877) 25–27.
ARMSTRONG, SIR RICHARD (_only son of lieut. col. Richard Armstrong
of Lincoln_.) _b._ 1782; ensign 24 foot 23 June 1796; served in
Peninsula 1808–14; lieut. col. 1 foot 18 Oct. 1821, and of 26 foot
24 Jany 1829 to 13 Feb. 1835 when placed on h.p.; colonel 95 foot
29 March 1848 and of 32 foot 25 June 1850 to death; commander in
chief at Madras 29 Sep. 1851 to 27 Oct. 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851;
C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 7 April 1852, K.T.S.; Knighted by Wm. IV.
at St. James’s palace 28 Sept. 1831. _d._ on board the ship Barham
on his voyage home from Madras 3 March 1854.
ARMSTRONG, RICHARD (_eld. son of Wm. Armstrong, of Roxborough, co.
Armagh, engineer_.) _b._ Armagh 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
called to Irish bar 1839, went Leinster circuit; Q.C. 28 Jany.
1854, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; third sergeant at law 1861–65,
second 1865, and first 1866 to death; M.P. for Sligo 1865–68.
(_m._ 1847 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Meurant.) _d._ 32 Stephen’s
Green, Dublin 26 Aug. 1880. _Irish law times xiv_, 452 (1880.)
ARMSTRONG, ROBERT ARCHIBALD (_eld. son of Robert Archibald of
Kenmore, Perthshire_). _b._ Kenmore 1788; ed at Univs. of Edin.
and St. Andrews; Gaelic lexicographer in ordinary to George iv
1826; head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 1830–52; author of _A
Gaelic dictionary_ 1825, which was the first ever published; wrote
many scientific papers in the _Arcana of science and art_ 1837 _et
seq._ _d._ Choumert road, Peckham Rye 25 May 1867.
ARMSTRONG, ROBERT BAYNES (_eld. son of John Armstrong of Lancaster,
merchant_). _b._ Lancaster 1785; ed. at Clitheroe and Sedbergh
schools and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of
his college; barrister I.T. 23 June 1814, bencher 1840, reader
1851; treasurer 1852; Q.C. 1840; recorder of Hull 1836–37, of
Leeds 1837–39 and of Manchester and Bolton May 1848 to May 1865;
M.P for Lancaster 1848–53. (_m._ Dec. 1842 Frances youngest dau.
of Richmond Blamire of Thackwood, Cumberland, she _d._ 19 March
1862). _d._ 29 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 15 Jany. 1869.
ARMSTRONG, THOMAS WILLIAM DE BUTTS. _b._ 1826; resident engineer on
several important works in Mayo 1848–53; one of the first
engineers sent to India in government service 1855; chief engineer
of Central Provinces 1869 to death; M.I.C.E. 10 April 1866. _d._
on board P. and O. steamer Travancore off the Malabar coast 1 May
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