William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was a Tyneside industrialist who was the effective founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.

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He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, at 9 Pleasant Row, Shieldfield, about three-quarters of a mile from the city centre. The house no longer exists but an inscribed granite tablet marks the spot. At that time the area, next to the Pandon Dene, was quite rural. His father, also called William, was a corn merchant on the Newcastle quayside, who became mayor of Newcastle in 1850. An older sister, Anne, born in 1802, was named after his mother, the daughter of William Porter.

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