Andrew Armstrong [SEP] noble title
Andrew Armstrong
Sir Andrew Armstrong, 1st Baronet DL (19 October 178627 January 1863) was an Irish baronet and politician.
Early life.
Born at Gallen Priory in County Offaly, he was the son of Edmund Armstrong and his wife Elizabeth, third daughter of Frederick Trench and sister of Frederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown.
Career as politician.
He served as captain in the King's County Militia. and was appointed High Sheriff of King's County in 1811, and again in 1836, and served
no children, and Armstrong’s heir was his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong. He was succeeded as chairman of the company by his one-time protégé, Andrew Noble.
Such was Armstrong's fame as a gun-maker that he is thought to be a possible model for George Bernard Shaw's arms magnate in "Major Barbara". The title character in Iain Pears' historical-mystery novel "Stone's Fall" also has similarities to Armstrong.
His attitude to armaments.
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