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George Armytage (politician)

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Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1734 – 21 January 1783)[1] was a British politician.

In 1758, he succeeded his older brother John as baronet.[2] Armytage was a member of parliament (MP) for York from 1761 to 1768.[3]

Family

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On 10 April 1760, Armytage married Anna Maria Wentworth, eldest daughter of Godfrey Wentworth at St Marylebone Church in London.[4] They had three daughters and three sons, of whose George, the oldest succeeded to the baronetcy.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, York". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 443.
  6. ^ "Wentworth, Godfrey Wentworth (1773–1834), of Woolley Park, nr. Wakefield, Yorks., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 20 May 2017.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for York
17611768
With: Robert Fox-Lane
Succeeded by
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Kirklees)
1758–1783
Succeeded by