Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1734 – 21 January 1783) was a British politician.
He was the second son of Sir Samuel Armytage, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Griffith, daughter of Thomas Griffith. In 1758, he succeeded his older brother John as baronet. Armytage was a Member of Parliament (MP) for York from 1761 to 1768. Between 1775 and 1776, he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Armytage died aged 48 and was buried at Hartshead in Yorkshire.
Family
On 10 April 1760, Armytage married Anna Maria Wentworth, eldest daughter of Godfrey Wentworth at St Marylebone Church in London. They had three daughters and three sons, of whose George, the oldest succeeded to the baronetcy.
- 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.
References
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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.
- 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 | ||
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| Preceded byWilliam Thornton George Fox |
Member of Parliament for York 1761 – 1768 With: Robert Fox-Lane |
Succeeded byCharles Turner Lord John Cavendish |
| Baronetage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded byJohn Armytage | Baronet (of Kirklees) 1758 – 1783 |
Succeeded byGeorge Armytage |
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