George Armytage

For other people named George Armytage, see George Armytage (disambiguation).

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]

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] Armytage died, aged 48 and was buried at Hartshead in Yorkshire.[2]

References

  1. "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 "ThePeerage - Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 12 February 2009.
  3. 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.
  4. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, York". Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  5. 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.
  6. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 443.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
William Thornton
George Fox
Member of Parliament for York
1768 1768
With: Robert 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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