John Armstrong (architect)

John Armstrong (20 January 1857 – 27 April 1941) was a Scottish architect and civil engineer operating in Scotland in the late 19th century.

He was born in Newport Street in Edinburgh in 1857, the son of James Armstrong, an engine driver and superintendent with the Caledonian Railway, and Agnes Irvine.

In 1885 he moved to the then newly completed corner flat at 17 Hillside Crescent, designed by his peer, John Chesser.

After briefly living with his brother George in Birmingham in England for part of 1886 he moved to London.

[6] John Armstrong became a civil engineer and inventor, experimenting with ore and he had a number of patents for reverberating furnaces and fire grates.