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William George 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.
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. The title became extinct on his death in 1900.
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 .
It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm. An industrial magnate , scientist, philanthropist and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong gun , Armstrong also displayed his inventiveness in the domestic sphere, making Cragside the first house in the world to be lit ...
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William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong: May 1901. Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell: March 1903. Alexander Laing: September 1904. Sir Henry William Newton: October 1906. William John Sanderson: March 1909. Thomas Richardson: May 1909. Sir Andrew Noble: June 1910. Sir William Haswell Stephenson: October 1910.
In 1859 the United Kingdom adopted rifled breechloading guns, the so called Armstrong guns, designed by William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. Armstrong then became engineer of rifled ordnance. [3] The Armstrong guns would be produced at the Royal Works at Woolwich as well as at the new Elswick Ordnance Company founded in Newcastle on 1 ...
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810–1900), Tyneside industrialist who was the effective founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire; Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge (1817–1892), founder of Bainbridge Department Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first such store in the world (still the largest John Lewis outside London)