The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-14
EMPEROR PROMOTES
HIS SON TO COLONEL

the first Lord Armstrong, and. rs men
toned above, three years ago was
obliged to completely sever his con-
nection with the iron works. to sell
all his household furniture. pictures.
carriages and horses. etc, and to eff
feet a compromise with his long list
Of creditors, who included number of
wcll-known London moneylendcrs and
usurcrs, among them being James Will
ton & Co. OF piccadllly.
The late lord Armstrong, the
founder OF the r;lswick iron works,
which. like the Krupps In Germany,
turn out not only iron and steel. but
heavy ordnance, armor plate for land
defenses and for ships. and which
likewise has built q number Of iron
:. clads FOR the British navy and for for
eiSn powers, was not a self-m:.dc man
in the sense that he was Of humble
origin. For his father was the wealth.
lest iron merchant of Newcastle on
Tyne. and served a number of terms
of otf1ce as mayor of that city. Vet
old Lord Armstrong never claimed any
ancestors. nor added any gems of
} mythical genealogy to the pages of
Burke" devoted to his name His
!, shield and supporters bear reference
only to his trade, the supporters be-
ing two stalwart smiths with huge
sledge hammers, while the motto
Forts In arms" (Strong in arIns) In
alluson to his name and 10 the eX-
cellcncc of his artillery, is probably
the most appropriate to be found in
the entire records of the Royal College
OF Hcralds lIo was created u peer OF
the realm on the occasion of Queen
Vctoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. and
died without issue in 1900. when his
, barony became extinct. All his afec-
tons were centred in his grand
nephew, William Watson, to whom he
bcqucathed his cntiro fortune. his ma
| jority stock In tho great Elswick iron
works and snip yards, we'll as his
: country seat OF Cragsidc, near Roth
bury, and hamburg Castle, u grand old
: place in northumberland
The late Lord Armstrong; only sis
ter married Sir William Watson.
Judge of tho ENchcquer. and IL veteran
! of the Peninsular War and of tho bat
tie Of Waterloo His son was John
Watson, and his son in turn was Will
; liam Watson, who three years ago,
, after the death of his grand-unclc, had
| the latter's pecragc revived In his
| favor by the Unionist government.
Lord Armstrong is man of about
fifty, Is member Of the Carlton Club,
which of course indicates that in pol
tiles no is a Conservative, is married
to a daughter OF the late Sir John
Adyc, of rci-el-l(ebir celebrity, and
has two children, the eldest OF them.
the Hon. William John Armstrong, be-
ing the one who has just come. out
with his profession of socialism.
Rowland Allanson Vim, who has
just succeeded TO tho three Irish peer
uses and To the ancient baronctcy OF
his cousin, Lord IIeadley. is Il notable
sportsman. who when at the Cam
bridge University won tho middle and
heavyweight championships at boxing.
and has written several standard
works OH the art of self-defcnse lie
is civil engineer. who is recognized
as an authority on harbor construction
and in tho protection and improve
ment of forcshorcs, and has. indeed,
been the designer and the author of
most OF the forcshore protection works
on the coasts Of Ireland and Great
Britain. lie is married, has f1ur sons,
and is well OF, not only by inheri-
tance, but also thanks to the hand
some income which he derives from
his profession. In this respect he will
he distinctly more fortunate than his
predecessor in the title
The late Lord Ieadley. although
possessed OF some 10000 acres OF land
In Ireland, was. owing to tho embar-
raised condition of his property, so
hard up II times that at one period
of his life he was reduced positively
TO being without shelter and obliged
to take his nights rest in the open aiS,
on the seats of the Thames Embank-
ment. lie was of n most adventurous
disposition, spent much time prospect
ing in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and
other Western states, also in the
Northwest OF Canada, and served
through the Franco Prussian War on
the stan OF General Won Goeben. lie
also fought beside tho late Lord Ash
burnham-who has also just been
gathered to his fathcrs-for Don
Carlos. in the Carlst wars forty
years ago.
AT one time, round about 1892. he
was missing for two years in Central
Africa. He had started out north of
the Zambesi on a shooting expedition
consisting OF but SIX people besides
himself, narrowly escaping being eaten
by cannibals. penetrated regions where
no white man had ever set foot before,
killed with his own gun no less than
eighteen rhinoceri, several elephants
and 4 dozen lions, and then uneXpect-
eddy reappeared 20 take his seat, as
II nothing had happened, as repre-
sentative peer of ireland in the House
OF Lords. lie was CHEEKY looking,
fresh colorcd man, with white hair
and mustache, not very tall but of
strong build and slightly deaf
Some time ago he sold his Irish es-
tates to the tenants, under the terms
OF the land act, but owing TO their be-
ing so heavily mortSaged did not OBJ
tain much money thcrefrom. What
little he had is left TO his widow, an
invalid. and to his daughter the Hon
Mrs. Jones Ilewellyn. The peerages.
all of them Irish, were created by
King George Ill, and tho baronetcy
by Charles II.
Copyright, 1913. by the Brentwood