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Armstrong
Retirement
In 1908, Armstrong retired to England and
was succeeded at Rookwood by his son,
John Spearman Armstrong, who managed
the plantation until 1944.[2]
Notes
1. 1911 United Kingdom census, Oakhurst,
West Byfleet (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/i
mageviewer/collections/2352/images/rg14
_03009_0391_03) , ancestry.co.uk,
accessed 28 July 2021 (subscription
required)
2. Royston Ellis, Rookwood: memories of a
forgotten pioneer (https://www.sundaytime
s.lk/970907/plus10.html) , The Sunday
Times (Sri Lanka), 7 September 1997,
accessed 27 July 2021
3. John Penry Lewis, List of inscriptions on
tombstones and monuments in Ceylon
(1913), p. 374 (https://books.google.co.uk/
books?id=lWHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA374)
4. C. Spearman Armstrong (https://www.histo
ryofceylontea.com/tea-planters/planters-re
gistry/armstrong-c-spearman--11115434.h
tml) , historyofceylontea.com, accessed 28
July 2021
5. Charles Spearman Armstrong (http://online
books.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/look
upname?key=Armstrong%2C%20Charles%2
0Spearman) , University of Pennsylvania,
accessed 28 July 2021: “Armstrong,
Charles Spearman: Tea Cultivation in
Ceylon. (Colombo, A. M. & J. Ferguson,
[1884])”
. Ceylon Handbook and Directory (1891), p.
363
7. Woking Remembers: World War One Byfleet
War Memorial (https://www.exploringsurrey
spast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/0
3/Byfleet_War_Memorial.pdf) ,
exploringsurreyspast.org.uk, accessed 5
August 2021
. “Charles Spearman Armstrong, deceased”
in The London Gazette, Issue 32934, 9 May
1924, p. 3801 (https://www.thegazette.co.u
k/London/issue/32934/page/3801)
9. Ian Miller, Other lives: Neville Armstrong (htt
ps://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/se
p/26/pressandpublishing) , The Guardian,
26 September 2008, accessed 27 July 2021
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