Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Alexander Armstrong KCB FRS FRGS (c. 1818 – 4 July 1899) was an Irish naval surgeon, explorer, and author who from 1850 to 1854 sailed the Arctic on HMS Investigator under the command of Robert McClure in search of the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. Armstrong's account of the voyage, Personal narrative of the discovery of the north-west passage, was published in London in 1857.^[1]

Born in County Donegal, Ulster, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Medical Department of the Royal Navy in 1842 and became its director-general in 1869. He was present during the naval bombardment of Sveaborg during the Crimean War. He became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1871 and served as honorary physician to Queen Victoria and to the Prince of Wales.

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Wikisource has the text of the Dictionary of National Biography 1901 supplement's article about Armstrong, Sir Alexander.

• Works by Alexander Armstrong at Open Library
•  Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Armstrong, Alexander" . Men of the Time  (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. pp. 44–45.