| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000 |
| Editors | H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | online |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | Online |
| ISBN (Print) | 019861411X |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Abstract
Armstrong, Wallace Edwin (18961980), anthropologist and economist, was born on 24 February 1896 at 2 Deerbrook Road, Norwood, London, the second of three sons of William Wallace Armstrong, a civil servant with the Local Government Board, and his wife, Alice Imeson of Herne Hill, London. He was educated at Dulwich College from 1909 to 1914 and matriculated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 1 October 1914. His studies were interrupted that year when he volunteered as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He lost a leg in action near Ypres on 21 July 1915, just one week after his elder brother, Harry, died from wounds in a battle at Armentières. On his return to Cambridge he became a pacifist and joined the Union of Democratic Control. He held a Kitchener scholarship and graduated in 1918 with second classes in both parts of the moral sciences tripos.