Armstrong, John (3), D.D
Armstrong, John (2), D.D
a bishop of the Church of England, was born at Bishop Wearmouth, Aug. 22,1813. He was educated at Charterhouse School; became Crewe exhibitioner at Lincoln College, Oxford; took his degree of A.B. in 1836; was soon after ordained deacon and priest, and served a curacy in Somersetshire; was afterwards curate of Clifton; was elected in 1841 priest-vicar of Exeter Cathedral, and subsequently became Saints-day preacher in that cathedral: was presented to the rectory of St. Paul’s, Exeter, in 1843; and about this time began writing for the press. In October, 1845, he exchanged livings with the Rev. J. H. S. Barr, vicar of Tidenham, Gloucestershire, to which he then removed. Soon after he commenced the reform of the female-penitentiary system, begun by an article in the Quarterly, which resulted in an entirely new system, the distinguishing feature of which is, that the penitents are under the care of unpaid gentlewomen instead of paid matrons. The Tracts for the Christian Seasons, edited by him and published at Oxford, began in 1849, and met with great success. These were followed by a second series; and then he began the Parochial Tracts, during the issue of which he published the Sermons for the Christian Seasons, all of which were successful literary ventures. He was designated bishop of Grahamstown, South, Africa, and consecrated at Lambeth in 1853. He died May 16,1856. During his short episcopate bishop Armstrong had established a grammar-school and begun a diocesan college for the training on the spot of a ministry for his diocese. He also wrote, Pastor in his Closet (2d ed. 1857) :-Essays on Church Penitentiaries (1858):-and other works. His Life has been written by Rev. T. T. Carter (1857). See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1856, p. 468.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Armstrong, John (3), D.D
a Presbyterian minister, was born at Oxford, Pa., March 11, 1825. He received his preparatory education at New London Academy. He passed through his sophomore year at Lafayette College, Pa., and then went to’ Washington College, Lexington, Va., where he graduated in 1850. The same year he entered Princeton Seminary, and graduated in 1853. He was licensed by the Newcastle Presbytery and ordained an evangelist. After serving as a missionary at Platte City, Mo., he became a stated supply at Hazelton, Beaver Meadow, and Weatherly, Pa., where he remained ten years. He then preached as stated supply at Muscatine, Is.; and after remaining a year was installed pastor. After laboring with great zeal and success ten years, he was released. In 18-4 he was appointed, by the Synod of Iowa, South, as financial agent to establish a college; and, as the result of his labors and self-sacrificing devotion, Parsons College was founded and located at Fairfield, Ia. He was elected professor of history and moral philosophy, and subsequently its president. He died at Fairfield, Aug. 13, 1879. See Necrological Report of Princeton Alumni, 1880. (W. P. S.)