Albert Kingsley Armstrong
1884 - 1965
Albert Armstrong, a composer, was known primarily for his work as a pioneering pastor in Great Britain, where he served as a pastor for 56 years. Two of his hymns were included in The New Advent Hymnal released in Great Britain in 1952.
Armstrong's parents, among the earliest converts to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in England, were residing in Ulceby when he was born. He was baptized at age seventeen and attended Duncombe College, renamed Stanborough Park Missionary College by the time he graduated in 1908. These early names for the school would change yet again in 1921, 1923, and 1931 - all being forerunners to today's Newbold College.
Armstrong married Eunice Annie Lane in 1908 and then traveled to Ireland, where he began his ministry. Five years later he was assigned to the North England Conference, where he served as pastor in the Birmingham, Northampton, and other churches and conducted evangelistic campaigns for sixteen years.
In 1929, he was transferred to the South England Conference, where he worked for 35 more years. Armstrong's final service in that conference was at the Stanborough SDA church, headquarters for the church in Great Britain, for 17 years, where he was pastor for ten years and chaplain for seven.
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Sources: Obituary, British Advent Messenger, 26 February 1965, 16; Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Volume 10, Second Revised Edition, 1996, (Review and Herald Publishing Association) 115.