ARMISTEAD, WILSON. Author of _A tribute for the Negro_ 1848; _Select Miscellanies_, _2 vols._ 1851; _The Anti-slavery pilot_, 22 _numbers_ 1855; _Tales and legends of the English lakes and mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar_ 1855. _d._ Virginia house, Leeds 18 Feb. 1868 aged 49. _Joseph Smith’s Friends books i_, 124–31 (1867); _Annual Monitor for 1869 pp._ 2–8. ARMITAGE, SIR ELKANAH (_3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton, Lancs._) _b._ Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners 1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester 1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county palatine of Lancaster 1866. _d._ Hope hall, Pendleton near Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876), _portrait_. ARMITAGE, GEORGE. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801, introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame; invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray; sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about 1850. _d._ Australia 1857 aged 89. ARMITAGE, REV. ROBERT. R. of Easthope, Salop 1843 to death; published anonymously _Doctor Hookwell or the Anglo-Catholic family_, _3 vols._ 1842; _The Penscellwood papers comprising essays on the souls and future life of animals_, _2 vols._ 1846; _Ernest Singleton_ 1848; _Dr. Johnson his religious life and his death_ 1850. _d._ Easthope 2 Feb. 1852 aged 47. ARMSTRONG, ALEXANDER. 2 Lieutenant Royal Irish Artillery 7 July 1783; major 24 July 1800 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full pay; general 30 June 1854. _d._ Green park, Bath 2 Dec. 1861 aged 94. ARMSTRONG, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Edmund Armstrong of Gallen, King’s county 1754–1827_). _b._ Gallen Priory 19 Oct. 1786; sheriff of King’s county 1811 and 1836; receiver general of stamps in Ireland 1831–41; M.P. for King’s county 1841–52; created baronet 18 Sep. 1841. _d._ Chester 27 Jany. 1863. ARMSTRONG, EDMUND JOHN. _b._ Mornington house, Upper Merrion st. Dublin 23 July 1841; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; took 1st prize in Latin and Greek verse; pres. of the Undergraduate philosophical society; received gold medal of Royal historical society Nov. 1864; author of _Poems_ 1865, new ed. 1877. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 24 Feb. 1865. _Life and letters of E. J. Armstrong, edited by G. F. Armstrong_ 1877, _portrait_.