claim: Richard Dawson was born in England on November 20th, 1932 at ten o'clock at in the morning.
evidence: William Henry Armstrong Fitzpatrick Watson-Armstrong , 1st Baron Armstrong , DL , Hon. DCL -LRB- 3 May 1863 -- 16 October 1941 -RRB- , was a British benefactor .. Deputy Lieutenant. Hon. DCL. Doctor of Civil Law. Born William Watson , he was born at 65 Eccleston Square , London , the son of John William Watson , of Adderstone Hall , Belford , Northumberland , son of Sir William Henry Watson , Baron of the Exchequer , and Anne Armstrong , daughter of William Armstrong , a corn merchant and Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne , whose son William Armstrong , 1st Baron Armstrong was the founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire .. London. London. Adderstone Hall. Adderstone Hall. Sir William Henry Watson. William Henry Watson. Baron of the Exchequer. Baron of the Exchequer. Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne. Armstrong Whitworth. Armstrong Whitworth. Northumberland. Northumberland. His mother was Margaret Godman Fitzpatrick , daughter of Patrick Persse Fitzpatrick , of Bognor Regis , Sussex .. Bognor Regis. Bognor Regis. Sussex. Sussex. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge .. Eton. Eton College. In 1889 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Armstrong .. Watson-Armstrong served in the Northumberland Hussars , where he was promoted Major on 12 April 1902 .. Northumberland Hussars. Northumberland Hussars. Major. Major ( British Army ). Northumberland. Northumberland. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1899 , and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland in 1901 .. High Sheriff of Northumberland. High Sheriff of Northumberland. Deputy Lieutenant. Deputy Lieutenant. Northumberland. Northumberland. In 1900 he succeeded to the vast fortune of his great-uncle , Lord Armstrong .. Lord Armstrong. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. The following year he gave # 100,000 -LRB- equivalent to # in -RRB- , for the building of the new Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne , for which the city conferred upon him the honorary Freedom in July 1901 .. Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne. Royal Victoria Infirmary. Royal Victoria Infirmary. honorary Freedom. Honorary Freeman. The original 1753 infirmary building at Forth Banks near the river Tyne were inadequate and impossible to expand .. In September 1901 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law -LRB- DCL -RRB- from the University of Durham .. Doctor of Civil Law. Doctor of Civil Law. University of Durham. University of Durham. In 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong , of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland , a revival of the barony which had become extinct on his great-uncle 's death three years earlier .. Northumberland. Northumberland. Lord Armstrong was married three times .. Lord Armstrong. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. He married firstly Winifreda Jane Adye , daughter of General Sir John Miller Adye , in 1889 .. They had one son and one daughter .. After her death in December 1914 he married secondly Beatrice Elizabeth Cowx , daughter of Jonathan Cowx , in 1916 .. After her death in November 1934 he married thirdly Kathleen England , daughter of Reverend Charles Thorpe England , in 1935 .. The last two marriages were childless .. Lord Armstrong died in October 1941 , aged 78 , and was succeeded in the barony by his only son , William .. Lord Armstrong. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. Lady Armstrong died in 1970 .