William Drayton Armstrong
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = William Drayton Armstrong
|honorific-suffix =
|image = William Drayton Armstrong - Queensland politician.jpg
| office = Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
| term_start = 11 July 1911
| term_end = 15 April 1915
| predecessor = Joshua Thomas Bell
| successor = William McCormack
| constituency = Lockyer
| constituency_AM1 = Lockyer
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 13 May 1893
| term_end1 = 27 August 1904
| predecessor1 = William North
| successor1 = Michael O'Keefe
| term_start2 = 18 May 1907
| term_end2 = 16 March 1918
| predecessor2 = Michael O'Keefe
| successor2 = Cuthbert Butler
| caption =
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|3|28|df=y}}
|birth_place = {{nowrap|Drayton, Colony of Queensland}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|6|2|1862|3|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Gatton, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace =
|party = Queensland Liberal
|otherparty = Opposition, Ministerial
|spouse =
| known_for =
| occupation = Station manager
| relations =
| alma_mater =
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William Drayton Armstrong (28 March 1862 – 2 June 1936) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1904 and from 1907 to 1918, representing the electorate of Lockyer. He was Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1915.{{cite web | url=https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1737859111 | title=Armstrong, Hon William Drayton | publisher=Parliament of Queensland | accessdate=9 December 2017}}
Early life
Armstrong was born at Drayton. Armstrong owned a pastoral property called Adare, which was one of the Lockyer Valley's largest cattle properties of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had its homestead approximately seven kilometres north of Gatton on Adare Road. The modern locality of Adare takes its name from the property. Armstrong moved the original homestead from a site on the edge of Lake Clarendon in 1896.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97720974|title=Later home for Lord Huntingfield|date=8 April 1934|newspaper=Sunday Mail|accessdate=5 December 2017|issue=567|location=Queensland, Australia|page=1|via=National Library of Australia}} He was a Master of the Gatton Masonic Lodge.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38491113 |title=Death of W. D. Armstrong |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=861 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=3 June 1936 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Politics
Armstrong was a chairman of the Tarampa Divisional Board.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1893 election. He was defeated at the 1904 election, but regained his seat at the 1907 election. He was Chairman of Committees from 1910 to 1911 and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1911 until the conservative government's defeat by T. J. Ryan in 1915.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144668336 |title=Obituary|newspaper=Daily Advertiser |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 June 1936 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11039382 |title=Obituary|newspaper=The Argus |issue=28,014 |location= Melbourne |date=3 June 1936 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was described as "a typical country squire, perhaps the last of the squirearchy that had come down from earlier parliaments", with the Assembly under his speakership described as "stiff and formal".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38490972 |title=Country squire as speaker |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=861 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=3 June 1936 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} He lost his seat to Cuthbert Butler at the 1918 election.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72189901 |title=New Members. |newspaper=The Worker|location=Brisbane|volume=29 |issue=1404 |date=28 March 1918 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Later life
Armstrong never married. His nephew (son of his sister) William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield was Governor of Victoria from 1934 to 1939. He died from pneumonia at Adare in June 1936.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204844887 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Age |issue=25,314 |location=Melbourne|date=3 June 1936 |accessdate=9 December 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
References
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{{s-bef|before= William North}}
{{s-ttl |title= Member for Lockyer|years=1893–1904}}
{{s-aft|after=Michael O'Keefe}}
{{s-bef|before= Michael O'Keefe}}
{{s-ttl |title= Member for Lockyer|years=1907–1918}}
{{s-aft|after=Cuthbert Butler}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly