Baron Armstrong
Baron Armstrong , was a hereditary British title of nobility awarded twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
Awards
First created on July 6, 1887, the title of Baron Armstrong , of Cragside in the County of Northumberland , for the industrialist Sir William Armstrong . The title expired on his childless death on December 27, 1900.
His great-nephew and heir to his fortune, William Watson-Armstrong , was given the title of Baron Armstrong , of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, on August 4, 1903 . The title expired on October 1, 1987, when his grandson, the 3rd Baron, who left no biological children died.
List of Barons Armstrong
Barons Armstrong, first award (1887)
- William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810-1900)
Barons Armstrong, second bestowal (1903)
- William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1863-1941)
- William Watson-Armstrong, 2nd Baron Armstrong (1892–1972)
- William Watson-Armstrong, 3rd Baron Armstrong (1919–1987)
See also
- Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (Life Peerage, 1975)
- Baron Armstrong of Ilminster (Life Peerage, 1988)
- Baron Armstrong-Jones (Life Peerage, 1999)
Web links
- Armstrong, Baron (UK, 1887-1900) at Cracroft's Peerage
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 25718, HMSO, London, July 5, 1887, p. 3626 ( PDF , English).
- ↑ a b c George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Ed.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 1, The St Catherine Press, London 1910, pp. 218-219 ( archive.org ).
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 27582, HMSO, London, July 31, 1903, p. 4818 ( PDF , English).
- ↑ Peter W. Hammond (Ed.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 14, Sutton Publishing, Stroud 1998, p. 649.