John Armstrong

(1709-1779)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Armstrong, John, 1709-1779 NRA: Armstrong, John (1709-1779), physician and poet DNB: Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779), physician and poet LBT ID: JoArmst1779 VIAF ID: 59212872 LOC ID: n79062886	B/BAP: 1709 DIED: 1779-09-07
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Scottish physician, poet, and friend of James Thomson; his best-known work was The Art of Preserving Health (1744).
REFERENCES TO John Armstrong: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Going to School,” 20 March 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 8 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Fuseli. Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: V