Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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