Adam Pearson Armstrong (23 February 1788 – 28 September 1853) was an early European settler in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith in Western Australia.
Peel was taking up an offer by Captain James Stirling to provide free settlers the opportunity to move to the new settlement on the Swan River in Western Australia.
[5] However claims towards having lost an eye in the battle have been dismissed, as he was in Edinburgh forestalling bankruptcy just months before, and had no time to "pursue a military career to the rank and prestige that was attributed to him".
The family struggled to survive initially, in shelters made of wooden horse stalls, barrels and canvas, and eating food mostly brought by English ships.
Attempts at farming were unsuccessful because of winter flooding and the theft of stock, so six families who had hoped to live there all returned to Perth and Fremantle.
He had befriended Mark John Currie, the harbour master who lived on Crawley Bay, and the Armstrong children were to stay there until their father found a better place.
The surrounding bush and pastureland was cultivated successfully by the Armstrong family, with Adam naming their new home Dalkeith Cottage after the Scottish town where he grew up.
Later, city developers tried to sell the township of South Nedlands, but the name Dalkeith survived, as a legacy of Armstrong, the first settler.