Which National Trust property in the north east of England was once owned by Lord William Armstrong?
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong in favour of William Watson-Armstrong. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Armstrong was knighted in 1859 after giving his gun patents to the government. In 1887, in Queen Victoria's golden jubilee year, he
William Drayton Armstrong William Drayton Armstrong William Drayton Armstrong (28 March 1862 - 2 June 1936) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1904 and from 1907 to 1918, representing the electorate of Lockyer. He was Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1915. Armstrong was born at Drayton. Armstrong owned a pastoral property called Adare, which was one of the Lockyer Valley's largest cattle properties of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had its homestead approximately seven kilometres north of Gatton on Adare Road. The modern locality of Adare takes its