Martin Armstrong (English writer and poet)
- Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong
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- Armstrong, Martin
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- Date of birth
- 1882-10-02
- Place of birth
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Date of death
- 1974-02-24
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Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 October 1882 – 24 February 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories.
Armstrong was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
During World War I he volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles. He was commissioned into the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, T.F. in 1915 and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology.
He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.
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