Surname: Armstrong Forename(s): George Francis b. 5 May 1845. d. 24 July 1906. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet and academic. Younger brother of the poet Edmund John Armstrong. Educated at
Trinity College, Dublin. Assumed the additional surname of “Savage” upon the death
of a maternal aunt. Professor of history and English literature at Queen’s College,
Cork from 1870 to 1905. Received an honorary M. A. from Trinity College in 1872, followed
by an honorary DLitt in 1891. Attacked the Irish literary revival movement and was
severely criticised by W. B. Yeats for denigrating the Gaelic literary tradition.
Married Marie Elizabeth Wrixon in 1879. Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)