ARRAN COMPLETE PEERAGE 219 Auckland Grammar School. He was in practice as a solicitor until 1844, but subsequently became eminent as an engineer ; was inventor of the hydraulic crane, and of the celebrated Armstrong guns ; F.R.S. 7 May 1846 ; Engineer of Rifled Ordnance to the War Department, 1858-63 ; knighted 23 Feb. 1859; CB. (Civil) 25 Mar. 1859 ; President of the British Association, 1863, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1882, and thrice President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ; was founder of the Elswick Works, and Chairman of that Company; cr. LL.D. of Cambridge, 1862 ; and D.C.L. of Oxford 21 June 1870, and of Durham, 1882 ; Grand Ofliicer of the order of St. Maurice and Lazarus of Italy, 1876 ; Knight Commander of the Dannebrog of Denmark, of Charles III of Spain, and of Francis Joseph of Austria. Sheriff of North- umberland, 1883 ; and on 6 July 1887, being a Liberal Unionist, was cr. BARON ARMSTRONG OF CRAGSIDE,(») Northumberland. O Hon. Master in Engineering, Dublin, 1892. He m., i May 1835, Margaret, da. of William Ramshaw, of Bishop Auckland. Shed', s.p.^ 31 Aug. 1893, in her 86th year, at Jesmond Dene House, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Will pr. at ;^i2o,972. He d. at Cragside, 27, and was bur. 31 Dec. 1900, at Rothbur)', aged 90, when the peerage became extinct. W^ill pr. above
- ^i,399,ooo gross, and above ;^i,232,ooo net, leaving all save /jooo and an
annuity of ;^2000 P-^-j to his nephew, William Henr)' Armstrong Fitz- patrick Watson-Armstrong, who was f r., 4 Aug. 1 903, Baron Armstrong OF Bamburgh and Cragside. Family Estates : — These, in 1883, consisted of 2,265 acres in North- umberland, worth £6,606 a year. Principal Residences : — Cragside, near Rothbury, and Jesmond Dene, near Newcastle, both in Northumberland. ARRACAN See "Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, " Earldom (Amherst), cr. 1826. ARRAN (in Scotland) EARLDOM [S.] i. Thomas Boyd, C^) styled Master of Boyd, s. and . , h. ap. of Robert, ist Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock. [S.], ■ ^^ ^ Governor of Scotland 1466-69, by Mariot, da. of Sir ? Robert Maxwell, of Calderwood, was, by his father's ^^ 9- influence, m., before 26 Apr. 1467, to Mary, ist da. of (*) The arms of Armstrong, Lord Armstrong of Cragside, were Gules a jousting spear fessewise gold, the head silver, between two right arms in armour fessewise, the elbows bent, the open hands bare, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. (") He was one of the 8 " Jubilee " Barons cr. that month. For a list of these see note sub Cheylesmore. C) John Paston writes of him as " the most corteys, gentylest, wysest, kyndest, most compenabyll, freest, largeest, most bowntesous, knyght. . . Herto he is one the lyghtest, delyverst, best spokyn, fayrest archer ; devowghtest, most perfyghte and trewest to hys lady of all the knyghtys that ever I was aqweyntyd with. " V.G
