George Armytage (politician)
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
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- ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ 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.
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