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Watson-Armstrong lacked Armstrong's commercial acumen and a series of poor financial investments led to the sale of much of the great art collection in 1910. [44] In 1972, the death of Watson-Armstrong's heir, William John Montagu Watson-Armstrong, saw the house and estate threatened by large-scale residential development, intended to raise the ...
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 ...
The Kansas City preventive patrol experiment was a landmark experiment carried out between 1972 and 1973 by the Kansas City Police Department. It was evaluated by the Police Foundation . It was designed to test the assumption that the presence (or potential presence) of police officers in marked cars reduced the likelihood of a crime being ...
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.
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In 1889 William Watson assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Armstrong. [1] Watson-Armstrong served in the Northumberland Hussars, where he was promoted Major on 12 April 1902. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1899, [2] and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland in 1901. [3]
The Kansas City Police Station Number 4 in Kansas City, Missouri, was built in 1916.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]It was designed by architects Clarence K. Birdsall and Edgar P. Madorie in Mission Revival style.
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 .