John Armstrong (Poet)

John Armstrong (* 1709 in Roxburghshire, † September 7, 1779 in Covent Garden) was a Scottish physician and poet.

Armstrong studied medicine in Edinburgh, then settled down as a general practitioner in London, was there in 1749 Hospital doctor and served 1760-63 as a doctor in the British Army in Germany. He died on September 7, 1779.

His didactic poem The art of preserving health: a poem in four books ( London 1744; German Leipzig) treated a little poetic substance in a sober manner, but was due to the correctness of the language applause. Yet earned from his other writings, the poem The Oeconomy of Love ( 1739, amended 1768) mention.

Under the pseudonym Launcelot Temple, he published Sketches or Essays on Various subjects ( 1758). He also published Miscellanies (1770, 2 vols ). A new edition of his poems got George Gilfillan (1859 ).