Edward Armstrong (historian)

Edward Armstrong FBA (3 March 1846 – 14 April 1928[1]) was an English historian.

He was born in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, the son of John Armstrong, later Bishop of Grahamstown.

Armstrong wrote books on Charles V, Elisabeth Farnese, and Lorenzo de' Medici.

He also contributed to The Cambridge Modern History and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

In 1921 he married his second wife, Geraldine Prynne Harriss (born 1899), who was the third daughter of Rev.