Born Waterside, Lanark 30 January; died Wiltshire 17 February. Painter in oil and watercolour, horses and hunting scenes. Son of a cotton broker. Keen hunting man, hunted regularly with the Lanark and Renfrewshire hunts, and a fine horseman, for two years ran a stud in Hertfordshire with Joseph Crawhall. Spent his early life in Liverpool before returning to Scotland for schooling in Fife. After studying at St Andrews University he proceeded to Edinburgh, training at the School of Art and RSA Schools. There he met Robert Alexander who exerted a strong influence. Together they went to Tangiers where Armour was later to meed Joseph Crawhall. On his return to London, where he shared a studio with Phil May, he contributed drawings of sporting and rustic humour to Punch, conveyed most simply in muddy and wet settings. Also illustrated in colour two books, Jorrocks and Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting. His first work was published in The Graphic 1890. Met Phil May who introduced him to Punch for whom he remained a contributor for 35 years. During WW1 he commanded the Remount Depot in Salonika 1917-1919. Awarded OBE in 1919. In his equestrian portraits, of which 'The Dowager Duchess of Beaufort' is perhaps the best example, he captures the quintessential character of both horse and rider in the Leech tradition. In 1910 visited Austro-Hungary to study military horse procedures at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. His first wife died in 1924 and two years later he married Violet Burton. While hunting he always carried a sketch book. At home, one side of his studio was converted into a stable. His draughtsmanship was very direct, with freedom in paint portraying a true, natural and very a strong representation of the animal.