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  2. Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Cragside - Wikipedia

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    Cragside became an integral part of Armstrong's commercial operations: honoured guests under Armstrong's roof, including the Shah of Persia, the King of Siam and two future Prime Ministers of Japan, were also customers for his commercial undertakings. Following Armstrong's death in 1900, his heirs struggled to maintain the house and estate.

  5. William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. William Watson-Armstrong, 2nd Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. William Watson-Armstrong, 3rd Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    William Henry Cecil John Robin Watson-Armstrong, 3rd Baron Armstrong (6 March 1919 – 1 October 1987) was an English landowner and peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1972 until his death. Born at Jesmond Dene House , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Armstrong was the only son of William Watson-Armstrong, 2nd Baron Armstrong and his wife Zaida ...

  8. Barrasford - Wikipedia

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    The scourge of tuberculosis lent urgency to the need for action in the North East. In 1902 a subscription fund was set up to finance the building of a sanatorium to treat patients. William Watson-Armstrong, who became Baron Armstrong after the death of his great uncle Lord Armstrong of Cragside, gave £4000 – equivalent to £350,000 today.

  9. Wikipedia : Peer review/Cragside/archive1

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    Designed by Richard Norman Shaw for William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Cragside is a house of firsts. The first in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity, it also topped Mark Girouard's list of Victorian houses that should be saved for the nation. Armstrong was the first scientist and the first engineer to be raised to the peerage, taking ...