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William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

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22: 162:, in 1889. They had one son and one daughter. After her death in December 1914 he married secondly Beatrice Elizabeth Cowx, daughter of Jonathan Cowx, in 1916. After her death in November 1934 he married thirdly Kathleen England (b. 12 August 1898), daughter of Reverend Charles Thorpe England, in 1935. The last two marriages were childless. Lord Armstrong died in October 1941, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son, 474: 454: 449: 411: 163: 489: 484: 155:, of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, a revival of the barony which had become extinct on his great-uncle's death three years earlier. 464: 459: 444: 126: 92: 469: 21: 479: 300: 84: 137:
in July 1901. The original 1753 infirmary buildings at Forth Banks near the river Tyne were inadequate and impossible to expand.
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manufacturing empire. In 1889 William Watson assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Armstrong.
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Lord Armstrong was married three times. He married firstly Winifreda Jane Adye, daughter of General Sir
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W.G. Armstrong: The Life and Times of Sir William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
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and Margaret Godman Fitzpatrick, daughter of Patrick Persse Fitzpatrick, of
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William Henry Armstrong Fitzpatrick Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
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in Newcastle upon Tyne, for which the city conferred upon him the
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In 1900 he succeeded to the vast fortune of his great-uncle,
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In September 1901 he was awarded the honorary degree of
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Spy
Vanity Fair
DL
Eccleston Square
Eton
Trinity College, Cambridge
Adderstone Hall
Belford, Northumberland
Bognor Regis
Sussex
Sir William Henry Watson
Baron of the Exchequer
William Armstrong
Newcastle upon Tyne
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
Armstrong Whitworth
Northumberland Hussars
Major
High Sheriff of Northumberland
Deputy Lieutenant
Northumberland
Lord Armstrong
Royal Victoria Infirmary
honorary Freedom
Doctor of Civil Law
University of Durham
John Miller Adye
William
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