William Armstrong

William Drayton Armstrong (28 March 1862 – 2 June 1936) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1893 to 1904 and from 1907 to 1918, representing the electorate of Lockyer. He was Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1915.

Early life

Armstrong was born at Drayton. He was a Master of the Gatton Masonic Lodge.

Politics Armstrong was a chairman of the Tarampa Divisional Board. He was described as "a typical country squire, perhaps the last of the squirearchy that had come down from earlier parliaments", with the Assembly under his speakership described as "stiff and formal". He lost his seat to Cuthbert Butler at the 1918 election.

Later life Armstrong never married. His nephew (son of his sister) William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield was Governor of Victoria from 1934 to 1939.