Herbert Rowse Armstrong

Herbert Rowse Armstrong TD. MA. 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 HayonWye, on the border of England and Wales, from 1906 until his arrest onDecember 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 Catharines College, Cambridge, gaining a degree in law, and qualified as a solicitor in February 1895. He later gained an MA from St Catharines in 1901. Initially practising in Liverpool, later Newton Abbot, he successfully applied for a vacancy in HayonWye, Breconshire, in 1906. He married Katharine Mary Friend of West Teignmouth, Devon, the following year the couple would have two girls and a boy.

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