He was educated at University College, London and the Middlesex Hospital. He won the university exhibition and gold medal in anatomy in 1890, and the university scholarship and gold medal in surgery and obstetrics at his qualification in 1893. He served as house surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy a

Born in London on 8 November 1865, the fourth child and only son of Henry Hugh Armstead, RA (1828-1905), sculptor, for whom see *DNB*, and Sarah his wife, daughter of Henry Tanworth Wells and sister of Henry Tanworth Wells, RA (1828-1903), portrait-painter, for whom see *DNB*. The father's best-know