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 1877. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 261–65 (1878).
ARMSTRONG, William. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions co. Londonderry. d. 1866.
ARNEY, Sir George Alfred (6 son of Wm. Arney of The Close, Salisbury). b. Salisbury 3 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837; recorder of Winchester Dec. 1856–1857; chief justice of New Zealand 1858–75; knighted by patent 18 July 1862. (m. 13 June 1833 Harriet dau. of Thomas Parr, captain R.N., she d. 18 April 1844). d. 17 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 7 April 1883.