{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Herbert Armstrong | image = | country = England | fullname = Herbert Horace Armstrong | nickname = | birth_place = Islington, Middlesex, England | birth_date = 25 October 1862 | death_date = Q1 1942 (aged 79) | death_place = Bournemouth, Hampshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | club1 = Hampshire | year1 = {{nowrap|1882–1885}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 23 | runs1 = 502 | bat avg1 = 14.34 | 100s/50s1 = –/2 | top score1 = 68 | deliveries1 = 3,713 | wickets1 = 68 | bowl avg1 = 20.23 | fivefor1 = 2 | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 7/33 | catches/stumpings1 = 10/– | date = 10 December | year = 2009 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8563.html Cricinfo }}
'''Herbert Horace Armstrong''' (25 October 1862 – 1942) was an English first-class cricketer.
Armstrong was born in October 1862 at Islington to John Armstrong, a salesman, and his wife, Jane.<ref name="1871census">''1871 England Census''. Retrieved 17 April 2020.</ref> Moving to Southampton in 1881, he began playing club cricket for Southampton, where he was noted as being one of the club's best batsmen.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000495/18811217/064/0008|title=Southampton news|work=Hampshire Advertiser|location=Southampton|page=8|date=17 December 1881|access-date=15 June 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> Armstrong began playing for Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1882, making his debut in first-class cricket against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Southampton. An all-rounder, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire until the county lost its first-class status in 1885, having made 23 appearances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6453/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Herbert Armstrong|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In these, he scored 502 runs at an average of 14.34, with a highest score of 68.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6453/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Herbert Armstrong|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his right-arm medium pace bowling, he took 68 wickets at a bowling average of 20.23; he took two five wicket hauls, with best figures of 7 for 33.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6453/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Herbert Armstrong|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Following the loss of Hampshire's first-class status, he continued to play second-class cricket for the county until 1889.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6453/all_teams.html|title=Teams Herbert Armstrong played for|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Armstrong lived in Southampton until 1889 or 1890, working in a cousin's lamp and oil shop in St. Mary's Street. He married in 1889 and then moved to London to work with his brothers in a wholesale fruit business. He had two children, a boy and a girl. In 1913 returned to Hampshire, where was the proprietor of a wool shop.<ref name="1939reg">''1939 England and Wales Register''. Retrieved 17 April 2020.</ref> Following his death at Bournemouth in the first quarter of 1942, his daughter gave an album of press cuttings and badges to the Hampshire Cricket Museum.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
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