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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Alexander Browne Armour

Mr. Alexander Browne Armour , Overseer at Blackstone Hill Station, was born at the Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1865. He was educated at Helensborough and Glasgow, and was brought up to mercantile life, but afterwards devoted two years to the learning of farming in the Isle of Bute. In 1884 he came to Otago, by the ship “Pleiades,” and after nine months in Canterbury he went to the Lauder station as shepherd, but was afterwards promoted to his present position. Mr. Armour was married, in 1892, to a daughter of Mr. James Elliott, manager of Blackstone Hill station, and has two sons and one daughter.