Volunteer Force Officers - Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen, Charles Douglas Fox, Charles Gordon O'Neill, Edmund Henry Lenon, Edmund Royds, Edward AK (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen, Charles Douglas Fox, Charles Gordon O'Neill, Edmund Henry Lenon, Edmund Royds, Edward Akroyd, Ernest Gray, Eugene Wason, Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss, George Melly (MP), Herbert Rowse Armstrong, James Dampier Palmer, John Clarke Hawkshaw, John James Mellor, John Thomas Barber Beaumont, Lord Arthur Hill, Lothian Bonham-Carter, O. W. Tancock, Oliver Ormerod Walker, Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker, Robinson Duckworth, Rowland Burdon (1857-1944), Sir Charles Hamilton, 1st Baronet, Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet, Walter Franklin, William Bonaparte-Wyse, William Hope (VC), William Thomas Charley, William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran. Excerpt: Herbert Rowse Armstrong TD. MA. (13 May 1869 - 31 May 1922) was an English solicitor and convicted murderer, the only solicitor in the history of the United Kingdom to have been hanged for murder. He was living in Cusop Dingle, Herefordshire, England and practising in Hay-on-Wye, on the border of England and Wales, from 1906 until his arrest on 31 December 1921 for the attempted murder of a professional rival by arsenic poisoning. He was later also charged and tried for the murder of his wife. Armstrong was born in May 1869 to a family of modest means in Newton Abbot, Devon. The family later moved to Edge Hill, Liverpool. He studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, gaining a degree in law, and qualified as a solicitor in February 1895. Initially practising in Liverpool, later Newton Abbot, he successfully applied for a vacancy in Hay-on-Wye, Breconshire, in 1906. He married Katharine Mary Friend of West Teignmouth, Devon, the following year; the couple would have two girls and a boy. The Armstrongs moved into an imposing family home called Mayfield in the village of Cusop Dingle not far from Hay where Armstrong ran his law firm of Cheese &...