ARMSTRONG, JAMES WELLS. Lieut, col. 4 depôt battalion 2 Oct. 1855 to 16 Oct. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 1 Nov. 1871 to 25 Nov. 1876; deputy adjutant general for auxiliary forces 25 Nov. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ 98 St. George’s sq. Westminster 12 April 1880. ARMSTRONG, JOHN. _b._ Ingram, Northumberland 13 Oct. 1775; a millwright and engineer at Bristol, city surveyor there 1831 to death; A.I.C.E. 1828. _d._ 17 March 1854. ARMSTRONG, RIGHT REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Armstrong of London, M.D._) _b._ Bishopwearmouth 22 Aug. 1813; ed. at Charterhouse 1827; Crewe exhibitioner at Linc. coll. Oxf. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A. 1850; C. of Clifton 1838–41; priest vicar of Exeter cathedral 1841; R. of St. Paul’s, Exeter 1843; V. of Tidenham, Gloucs. 1845; originated female penitentiary which was opened at Clewer 1849; founded _National Miscellany_ a monthly religious periodical 1853, it was united with the _Illustrated London magazine_ 1855; bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa 25 October 1853; consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov. 1853; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853; arrived at Grahamstown 26 Oct. 1854; author of _Sermons on the festivals_ 1845; _Parochial sermons_ 1854; wrote many and edited all the _Tracts for the Christian seasons_, 2 _series_ 1848–50. (_m._ 22 Feb. 1843 Frances eld. dau. of Edward Whitmore). _d._ Grahamstown 16 May 1856. _A memoir of John Armstrong, D.D. by Rev. T. T. Carter_ 1857, _portrait_; _G. M. i_, 376–82 (1856); _Guardian 20 Dec. 1882 p._ 1809. ARMSTRONG, VERY REV. JOHN (_brother of Sir Andrew Armstrong_). _b._ June 1791; archdeacon of Clonfert 24 June 1845; dean of Kilfenora Jany. 1847 to death. _d._ 16 June 1856. ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Provisional ensign Cape mounted rifles 19 March 1835; formed and commanded a corps of irregular horse known as “Armstrong’s Horse” during Kaffir war 1852–53; C.B. 13 March 1867, M.G. 6 July 1867. _d._ Stoulgrove house, near Chepstow 28 June 1874 aged 55. ARMSTRONG, JOHN WARNEFORD. _b._ King’s county 28 Aug. 1770; captain King’s county militia 19 Jany. 1798; betrayed Henry and John Sheares barristers of Dublin to the Government 1798; they were hung for high treason 14 July 1798; received pension of £500 per annum 1798 to death. _d._ 1858. _Howell’s State trials xxvii_, 255–398 (1820). ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH. _b._ Bewcastle Cumberland 21 Sep. 1816; engine driver on Liverpool and Manchester railway 1836–40; superintendent of locomotive carriage and wagon departments of Great Western Railway June 1864 to death; M.I.M.E. 1857, M.I.C.E. 1877. _d._ Matlock Bath 5 June 1877. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix_, 255–58 (1877).