Colonel Christopher Wyborne Armstrong (9 May 1899 – 8 July 1986) was a politician from Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. He was Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Armagh

Armagh (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from a by-election

By-election

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 in 1954 until he stood down at the 1959 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1959

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The son of Henry Bruce Armstrong

Henry Bruce Armstrong

Henry Bruce Wright Armstrong was a Northern Irish barrister and politician, Unionist MP for Mid Armagh from January 1921 until 1922....

, of Dean's Hill, Armagh, he married Hilde Kolz, with whom he had one son and daughter. Studying at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he retired to farm at Gilgil, Kenya.