George Armytage
Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1734 – 21 January 1783)[1] was a British politician.
He was the second son of Sir Samuel Armytage, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Griffith, daughter of Thomas Griffith.[2] In 1758, he succeeded his older brother John as baronet.[3] Armytage was a Member of Parliament (MP) for York from 1761 to 1768.[4] Between 1775 and 1776, he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[2]
Armytage died aged 48 and was buried at Hartshead in Yorkshire.[2]
Family
On 10 April 1760, Armytage married Anna Maria Wentworth, eldest daughter of Godfrey Wentworth at St Marylebone Church in London.[5] They had three daughters and three sons, of whose George, the oldest succeeded to the baronetcy.[6]
- Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth (1773–1834), MP, third son of Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet, married in 1794 Amelia, daughter of Walter Ramsden Beaumont Fawkes and sister of Walter Fawkes.[7]
References
- "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- "ThePeerage - Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. III. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 112.
- "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, York". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 43.
- Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 443.
- "Wentworth, Godfrey Wentworth (1773–1834), of Woolley Park, nr. Wakefield, Yorks., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 20 May 2017.
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by William Thornton George Fox |
Member of Parliament for York 1761 – 1768 With: Robert Fox-Lane |
Succeeded by Charles Turner Lord John Cavendish |
| Baronetage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by John Armytage |
Baronet (of Kirklees) 1758 – 1783 |
Succeeded by George Armytage, 4th Baronet |
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