ARMSTRONG, REV. NICHOLAS. Rector of St. James’s, Dublin; an agent of the Reformation society 1831; the most powerful of Irish declaimers; an Irvingite apostle 18 Jany. 1834; apostle to Ireland and Greece 1838; author of _Two letters to a friend in answer to the inquiry What is the use of the gifts of the spirit_ 1832; _Sermons preached in the Catholic Apostolic church Gordon Square_ 1857; _Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels_ 1870; _Sermons on various subjects_, 1870–79. _d._ Albury heath, Surrey 9 Oct. 1879 in 78 year. _Rev. Edward Miller’s History and doctrines of Irvingism_, _vol. i_; _R. S. Brooke’s Recollections of the Irish church_ (1877) 25–27. ARMSTRONG, SIR RICHARD (_only son of lieut. col. Richard Armstrong of Lincoln_.) _b._ 1782; ensign 24 foot 23 June 1796; served in Peninsula 1808–14; lieut. col. 1 foot 18 Oct. 1821, and of 26 foot 24 Jany 1829 to 13 Feb. 1835 when placed on h.p.; colonel 95 foot 29 March 1848 and of 32 foot 25 June 1850 to death; commander in chief at Madras 29 Sep. 1851 to 27 Oct. 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 7 April 1852, K.T.S.; Knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 28 Sept. 1831. _d._ on board the ship Barham on his voyage home from Madras 3 March 1854. ARMSTRONG, RICHARD (_eld. son of Wm. Armstrong, of Roxborough, co. Armagh, engineer_.) _b._ Armagh 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1839, went Leinster circuit; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1854, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; third sergeant at law 1861–65, second 1865, and first 1866 to death; M.P. for Sligo 1865–68. (_m._ 1847 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Meurant.) _d._ 32 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 26 Aug. 1880. _Irish law times xiv_, 452 (1880.) ARMSTRONG, ROBERT ARCHIBALD (_eld. son of Robert Archibald of Kenmore, Perthshire_). _b._ Kenmore 1788; ed at Univs. of Edin. and St. Andrews; Gaelic lexicographer in ordinary to George iv 1826; head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 1830–52; author of _A Gaelic dictionary_ 1825, which was the first ever published; wrote many scientific papers in the _Arcana of science and art_ 1837 _et seq._ _d._ Choumert road, Peckham Rye 25 May 1867. ARMSTRONG, ROBERT BAYNES (_eld. son of John Armstrong of Lancaster, merchant_). _b._ Lancaster 1785; ed. at Clitheroe and Sedbergh schools and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 23 June 1814, bencher 1840, reader 1851; treasurer 1852; Q.C. 1840; recorder of Hull 1836–37, of Leeds 1837–39 and of Manchester and Bolton May 1848 to May 1865; M.P for Lancaster 1848–53. (_m._ Dec. 1842 Frances youngest dau. of Richmond Blamire of Thackwood, Cumberland, she _d._ 19 March 1862). _d._ 29 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 15 Jany. 1869.