George Armstrong (1822 – 1 September 1905) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand.
He was born in St John's, Nova Scotia and first visited Banks Peninsula in command of a trading brig in the 1840s.
He was in charge of the schooner Edwin Stanley during the New Zealand Wars, and was court-martialled for taking his vessel to the rescue of a settler attacked by Māori while carrying stores for troops at Wanganui.
[2] He represented the Akaroa electorate in Parliament from 1866, when he beat the incumbent (Lancelot Walker),[3] to 1870 when he retired.
[6] His son George Armstrong (1853–1932) was on the Akaroa Borough Council for 50 years from 1879, including nearly 30 years as mayor.