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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. Baron Armstrong is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.. The first creation came on 6 July 1887 when the industrialist Sir William Armstrong was made Baron Armstrong, of Cragside in the County of Northumberland.
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, CB FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist.
Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB, CVO (30 March 1927 – 3 April 2020) was a British civil servant and life peer. [1] Early life and education
On 29 January 1975, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead, of the City of Westminster. [8] Armstrong died in Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . Armstrong also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1975.
In the grounds, Armstrong built dams and lakes to power a sawmill, a water-powered laundry, early versions of a dishwasher and a dumb waiter, a hydraulic lift and a hydroelectric rotisserie. In 1887, Armstrong was raised to the peerage, the first engineer or scientist to be ennobled, and became Baron Armstrong of Cragside.
William Henry Armstrong Fitzpatrick Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, DL, (3 May 1863 – 16 October 1941), was a British benefactor. Born William Watson, he was born at 65 Eccleston Square , London, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge .
Lord Armstrong may refer to: Iain Armstrong, Lord Armstrong (born 1956), Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland; Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster (1927–2020), British former civil servant; William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980), British civil servant and banker; One of the hereditary Barons Armstrong:
Armstrong was born in 1892 as the first child of the businessman William Watson-Armstrong and Winifreda Jane (née Adye). When Armstrong was 11 in 1903, his father was created Baron Armstrong after inheriting his industrialist great-uncle's wealth but not title in 1900, at which point he became The Hon William Watson-Armstrong.