Researching Alexander Armstrong
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The name Alexander means "Helper and defender of mankind" and is of Greek origin.
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Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Alexander Armstrong ( – 4 July 1899) was an Irish naval surgeon, explorer, and author who from 1850 to 1854 sailed the Arctic on under the command of Robert McClure in search of the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. Armstrong's account of the voyage, Personal narrative of the discovery of the north-west passage, was published in London in 1857.
Born in County Donegal, Ulster, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Medical Department of the Royal Navy in 1842 and became its director-general in 1869. He was present during the naval bombardment of Sveaborg during the Crimean War. He became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1871 and served as honorary physician to Queen Victoria and to the Prince of Wales.
Source: Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlexander Armstrong (politician)
Alexander Ewan Armstrong (15 June 1916 – 27 April 1985) was a politician, grazier and businessman in New South Wales, Australia.
Armstrong was born in Sydney to doctor George Armstrong and Florence Edith Ewan. He attended Scots College and became a grazier, working first on the family's Albury property and then at Winderadeen and Collector. On 10 February 1945, he married Marjorie Alma Goodhew and they had two daughters. He later divorced, and remarried Margaret Rose Cleary in July 1963.
A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1952. In 1956, he defected to the Country Party. In 1968 the Supreme Court found that Armstrong had threatened to have a business associate killed, and on 25 February 1969 the Legislative Council passed a resolution that he was guilty of conduct unworthy of a member of the council and that he be expelled. Armstrong unsuccessfully challenged his expulsion in the Court of Appeal.
He died at Alice Springs in 1985.
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