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Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong , founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm.
In 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, [8] a revival of the barony which had become extinct on his great-uncle's death three years earlier. Lord Armstrong was married three times. He married firstly Winifreda Jane Adye, daughter of General Sir John Miller Adye, in 1889 ...
In 1887 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong, of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. His last great project, begun in 1894, was the purchase and restoration of the huge Bamburgh Castle [16] on the Northumberland coast, which remains in the hands of the Armstrong family. His wife, Margaret, died in September 1893, at their house ...
The title became extinct on his death in 1900. The title was revived three years later, on 4 August 1903, for his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong, who was created Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. Born William Watson, he had assumed the additional surname of Armstrong by Royal licence in 1889.
The conservators Sarah Schmitz and Caroline Rawson suggest Cragside was "the place where modern living began". [6] Expanding his landholdings around Cragside, Lord Armstrong acquired Cragend, a nearby 16th-century farmhouse [7] two miles south of Rothbury. [8]
Cragside: Rothbury: Northumberland 1869/1870–1885 The first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity; built for Lord Armstrong. Chesters: Northumberland Preen Manor Shropshire Adcote: Little Ness Shropshire 1876–1881 Knight's Bank: Farnham Surrey 1868 Demolished 1932. Pierrepont and Merrist Wood: Surrey WoodPecker Lodge Holly Lane ...
Both paintings owned by the National Trust and housed at Cragside, the home of Armstrong's son. Around 1801, Armstrong married Ann Potter, [ 1 ] the eldest daughter of William Potter of Walbottle House, and a "highly cultured woman" according to Henry Palin Gurney , writing for the Dictionary of National Biography . [ 6 ]
This is a list of places in Northumberland, in England. The area covered is the ceremonial county , hence the exclusion of places traditionally regarded as being in Northumberland which are now in Tyne and Wear for administrative and ceremonial purposes, for places in Tyne and Wear see List of places in Tyne and Wear .