Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet

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]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armytage

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• ARMYTAGE, Sir George, 3rd Bt. (1734-83), of Kirklees Park, Yorks.
• b. 25 Dec. 1734, 2nd s. of Sir Samuel Armytage, 1st Bt., and bro. of Sir John Armytage, 2nd Bt.. m. 10 Apr. 1760, Anna Maria, da. and coh. of Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley Park, Yorks., 1s. and other issue. suc. bro. 10 Sept. 1758.
• Armytage was returned unopposed at York as the candidate of Lord Rockingham, whom he followed in Parliament. Two speeches by him are recorded: 10 Dec. 1762, against the peace preliminaries;1and 23 Nov. 1763, on Wilkes’s case.2
• In the autumn of 1767 Armytage declared he would not stand at the general election, pleading ill health, and ‘not being able to bear London’.3 Rockingham, unable to find a suitable candidate, pressed him to change his mind but he refused— ‘Mr. Wentworth, his father-in-law, anxiously wished him not to stand’.4
• Armytage continued to support Rockingham in Yorkshire politics; he helped to organize the petition of 1769, was one of the deputation who presented it to the King, and was chairman of the county meeting in 1770. He died 21 Jan. 1783.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/ar... ____________________
• Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bt.1
• M, #125405, b. 25 December 1734, d. 21 January 1783
• Last Edited=26 Jan 2011
• Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bt. was born on 25 December 1734.1 He was the son of Sir Samuel Armytage, 1st Bt. and Anne Griffith.1 He married Anna Maria Wentworth, daughter of Godfrey Wentworth and Dorothy Pilkington, on 10 April 1760 at St. Marylebone Church, Marylebone, London, England.1 He died on 21 January 1783 at age 48.1 He was buried on 29 January 1783 at Hartshead, Yorkshire, England.1
• He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Armytage, of Kirklees [in Hartshead], co. York [G.B., 1738] on 10 September 1758.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for York between 1761 and 1768.1 He held the office of High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1775 to 1776.1
• Children of Sir George Armytage, 3rd Bt. and Anna Maria Wentworth
  • 1.Anna Maria Armytage2 d. 1790
  • 2.Sir George Armytage, 4th Bt.+1 b. 11 Jun 1761, d. 14 Jul 1836
• Citations
• 1.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume V, page 84. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• 2.[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 113. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p12541.htm#i125405 _____________________
• The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n106/mo...
• CHART
• 1. Godfrey Wentworth = Anna Maria Clarke
  • 2. Godfrey Wentwoth of Wolley, died 1789. = Dorothy, his cousin, daughter of Sir Lyon Pilkington, Bart.
    • 3. Anna Maria Wentworth = Sir George Armytage, Bart.
      • 4. Godfrey Wentworth Armytage, third son; he took name and arms of Wentworth = Amelia, daughter of Walter Ramsden Hawksworth, Esq. _______________
• The Wentworth genealogy: English and American (1878) Three Vol.s - Vol. 1
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n65/mo...
• (25) Godfrey25 Wentworth, of Woolley, Esq., who was baptized at Woolley, 27 October 1678. He married at St. Alvans, Wood street, London, 9 July 1700, Anna-Maria, daughter of Giles Clark, Esq., Barrister of Lyon's Inn. They had issue, -- Anna-Maria26 (who married, first, 21 November 1726, the Rev. Edward Sylvester, who died the following year; and secondly, Peter Bold, Esq., of Bold Hall, co. Lancester, who died 12 September 1762, aged 59); Dorothy26, who died unmarried, and was buried in York Minster 5 May 1767; and an only son
  • (26) Godfrey26 Wentworth, of Woolley and Hickleton, who was Lord Mayor of Yok in 1759, and subsequently M. P. for the county. He married, in 1727, his cousin Dorothy, eldest surviving daughter of Sir Lyon Pilington, Bart., and died 18 January 1789, aged 84. Their issue were as follows: --
    • 1. William27, who died unmarried in 1746.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n66/mo...
    • 2. Godfrey27, who died unmarried in 1757.
    • 3. John 27, who died in infancy.
    • 4. Dorothy27, who died in infancy.
    • 5. Catherine27, born 26 January and baptized at St. Anne, Soho (London), 21 February 1742-3, who died unmarried in 1821.
    • 6. Anna-Maria27, eldest daughter and coheir, who was born 9 June 1736. She married, at St. Marylebone (London), 10 April 1760, Sir George Arnytage, third Bart., of Kirklees, co. York, and died in 1788. The present Baronet, Sir George29 Armytage, is her grandson.
• The male line of this branch of the Wentworth family, viz. through Michael20, of Mendham Priory, became extinct on the death of Peregrine26 (above mentioned), in 1809. ___________________