Armstrong, JOHN

Armstrong, JOHN, physician and medical writer, was born 8th May 1784, at Ayres Quay, near Bishop-Wearmouth, where his father was superintendent of glass-works. He graduated M.D. at the university of Edinburgh (1807), commenced practice at Bishop-Wearmouth, in 1811 was chosen physician to Sunderland Infirmary, and, having greatly extended his reputation by a work on Typhus (1816), in 1818 removed to London, where his practice became extensive, and where, from 1819 to 1824, he was physician to the Fever Hospital. He died of consumption, 12th December 1829. See his Life by Dr Boott (2 vols. 1833).—His son, JOHN ARMSTRONG (1813–56), in 1853 became Bishop of Grahamstown.