Henry Bruce Wright Armstrong (27 July 1844 – 4 December 1943) was a Northern Irish barrister and politician, Unionist

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(MP) for Mid Armagh from June 1921 until 1922. Born in Sholden, Henry Bruce Armstrong was the second surviving son of William Jones Wright Armstrong of

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and Frances Elizabeth, widow of Sir Michael McCreagh, and daughter of Major Christopher Wilson.''Who's Who'' He was educated at

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and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

, gaining a BA (2nd Class Law Tripos) in 1867 and an MA in 1870. Admitted at the

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in 1866, he was called to the Bar in 1868. In 1883 he married Margaret Leader (died 1936), daughter of William Leader of Rosnalea,

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. They had five sons and three daughters, of whom

C. W. Armstrong Colonel Christopher Wyborne Armstrong (9 May 1899 – 8 July 1986) was a politician from Northern Ireland. He was Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Armagh (UK Parliament constituency), Armagh from a ...

also became a politician.John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973'', p.184 Armstrong was appointed

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for 1875 and

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for 1894. He was a County Councillor for Armagh from 1899 to 1920, and a Member of the Irish Convention in 1917–18. Vice-Lieutenant of County Armagh in 1920, he was a Senator of

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from 1920 to 1937. He was returned unopposed to the Imperial House of Commons for Mid-Armagh in a by-election in 1921, at the advanced age of 76, becoming one of the oldest first-time MPs whose birth date is recorded. Certainly, he immediately became the oldest member of the current House of Commons. He was a Senator of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1937, and

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from 1924 to 1939. For 25 years he was a member of the Representative Body of the

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. He was Chairman of the County Armagh Education Committee from 1925 to 1931, and President of the Association of Education Committees of N. Ireland. In 1932 he was made a Privy Councillor for Northern Ireland, and in 1938 he served as a Justice for the Government of Northern Ireland in the absence of the Governor. He died in December 1943, aged 99 years.

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