John Armstrong was an Irish politician.
Armstrong was born in County Tipperary and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] He was MP for Fore in County Westmeath from 1769 to 1776; and for Kilmallock in County Limerick from 1783 to 1792. [2]
Trinity College Dublin, officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I who issued a royal charter on the advice of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland Adam Loftus, it is Ireland's oldest university and was modelled after the collegiate universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, with whom it shares a symbiotic history. The epithets "Trinity College Dublin" and "University of Dublin" are usually considered as synonyms, as only one such college was ever established in Ireland.
John Mortimer Brinkley was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy (1822–35), President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1831–33). He was awarded the Cunningham Medal in 1818, and the Copley Medal in 1824.
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Events from the year 1770 in Ireland.
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