Armistead

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Armistead is both a surname and a masculine given name.[1][2] Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Bill Armistead (born 1944), American politician from Alabama
  • George Armistead (1780–1818), American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812
  • James Armistead, American slave and spy in the American Revolution
  • Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Army general
  • Samuel G. Armistead (1927–2013), American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian and Hispanist
  • Walker Keith Armistead, United States Army brigadier general
  • Wilson Armistead, (1819–1868) British merchant, anti-slavery abolitionist and author

Given name:

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References[]

  1. ^ Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 91–. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. ^ Hanks, P.; Coates, R.; McClure, P. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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