John Armitage (9 May 1874 – 1 November 1953) was an English architect based in Nottingham and London.

Career

He was born in 1874 in Nottingham, the son of Samuel Fox Armitage (1830–1914) and Joanna Jarrett (1836–1922). He was educated at Bootham School, York, and then apprecenticed to Arthur Brewill and

Basil Baily Captain Basil Edgar Baily FRIBA (14 January 1869 – 1942) was an architect based in Nottingham. Much of his earlier work had to do with nearby churches. Background and family Basil Baily was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, son of th ...

. He commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1898 and opened an office in Westminster in 1900. From 1902 to 1904 he took Francis Giesler Newton as an articled pupil, and from 1903 to 1904 he took William Barnet Wyllie. On 16 March 1904, he was initiated into the Cordwainer Ward Lodge and was recorded as being resident in Broad Sanctuary, London. He is recorded as living in Nottingham in the 1901 and 1911 censuses. He married Olga Ramsey (1878–1941), daughter of farmer Robert Ramsey, on 1 July 1907 in St Barnabas' Church, Pimlico. He died in 1953 in Surrey.''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995''

Notable works

*Electrical company works, Berwick upon Tweed, 1903 (now demolished) *Morley’s Cafe, 34 to 36

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1908

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Armitage, John 1874 births Architects from Nottingham People educated at Bootham School 1953 deaths