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]

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. "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.