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7 unusual facts about Armstrong College


Armstrong College

Armstrong College, formerly a private college in Berkeley, California, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management; founded in 1914 and closed on June 11, 1986, located at 2222 Harold Way in the Ratcliff building (after Walter H. Ratcliff, Architect), a Berkeley landmark

Armstrong College, an educational institution in Newcastle, England, founded in 1871 as the College of Physical Science and becoming the Durham College of Physical Science in 1883, and merged in 1937 to form King's College; now a component of Newcastle University

Arthur Sutherland

In 1936, the Durham University College of Medicine and Armstrong College were about to merge to form King's College in the University of Durham and he donated £200,000 to establish a new Medical school at the newly named King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, now the equivalent to £6 million.

Bola Shagaya

She had her secondary school education at Queens School, Ilorin, and her tertiary education at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Armstrong College in California, where she studied economics and accountancy.

Dove Marine Laboratory

It comprised a small wooden hut sited next to the Saltwater Baths on Cullercoats Bay, and was used by Armstrong College to study the waters of the north east UK coastline.

Flavio de Carvalho

Carvalho was educated in France from 1911 to 1914, and then in Newcastle-upon-Tyne until 1922, attending the King Edward the Seventh School of Fine Arts and Durham University's Armstrong College.

Sophie Atkinson

She received training in art at the Newcastle School of Art, at Armstrong College, Newcastle, under R.G. Hatton and later at the Sir Hubert von Herkomer School near London.


Douglas Allan

He started working as a lecturer at Armstrong College, University of Durham from 1925 to 1929 and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1927, having been proposed by Thomas James Jehu, Robert Campbell, John Horne, George Walter Tyrrell, going on to serve as a councillor from 1955 to 1958.


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E.M.O'R. Dickey

He was art master at Oundle School and then became professor of fine art and director of King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University from 1926 to 1931.

Harold Orton

He worked as lecturer at Uppsala (1924–28), as lecturer at Armstrong College, Newcastle (now the University of Newcastle) (1928–39) and as lecturer in charge of the department of English language, University of Sheffield (1939–46).