Alexander Armstrong – Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards 2017 – Arrivals – Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane – London, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos
Birth Name: Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong
Place of Birth: Rothbury, Northumberland North Second, Northumberland, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 2 March, 1970
Ethnicity: English, some Irish, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, 1/64th Welsh
Alexander Armstrong is an English comedian, actor, television presenter, and singer. He is one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, alongside Ben Miller.
Alexander is the son of Emma Virginia Peronnet Thompson-McCausland and Henry Angus Armstrong, a physician. His father is of English descent. His mother has Irish, English, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, and 1/32 Welsh, ancestry.
Alexander’s paternal grandfather was Reginald Armstrong (the son of Henry Armstrong and Maud Clapham). Henry was the son of Henry Armstrong and Elizabeth Burnett. Maud was the daughter of Henry Clapham and Esther Mary Watson.
Alexander’s paternal grandmother was Phyllis Alison Fenwick (the daughter of James Charles Fenwick and Margaret Beatrice Wilson). James was the son of John Charles James Fenwick and Frances Eleanor Burrell. Margaret was the daughter of William Wilson and Margaret Dawson.
Alexander’s maternal grandfather was Lucius Perronet Thompson-McCausland (the son of John Perronet Thompson and Ada Lucia Tyrrell). John was the son of Canadian parents, John Thompson and Mary McGregor. Ada was the daughter of Irish parents, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell and Ada Shaw.
Alexander’s maternal grandmother was Helen Laura McCausland (the daughter of Maurice Marcus McCausland and Eileen Leslie Ogilby). Maurice was the son of Connolly Thomas McCausland, who was born in Ireland, to an Irish father and an English mother, and Laura St. John. Eileen was the daughter of Robert Alexander Ogilby, who was Northern Irish, and Helen Sarah Wheeler.
Sources: Genealogies of Alexander Armstrong – https://www.geni.com
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