Colonel Christopher Wyborne Armstrong (9 May 1899 – 8 July 1986) was a politician from
Northern Ireland. He was
Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for
Armagh
Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Pri ...
from a
by-election in 1954 until he stood down at the
1959 general election.
The son of
Henry Bruce Armstrong, of Dean's Hill, Armagh, he married Hilde Kolz, with whom he had one son and daughter. Studying at
Winchester College and
Trinity College, Cambridge, he retired to farm at Gilgil, Kenya.
His son, Simon W J Armstrong, married a daughter and co-heir of
Diana Miller, Countess of Mértola
Diana Mary Miller, 11th Countess of Mértola, 15th Baroness Conyers, 9th Baroness Fauconberg (5 July 1920 - 2 March 2013) was the eldest daughter of Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough.
On the death of her father in 1948, she inherited the Po ...
.
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1899 births
1986 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Armagh constituencies (since 1922)
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
Ulster Unionist Party MPs
Royal Engineers officers
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
British Army personnel of World War II
Royal Artillery officers
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