Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1734 – 21 January 1783) was a

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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

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. Armytage was a

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(MP) for

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from 1761 to 1768. Between 1775 and 1776, he was

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. Armytage died aged 48 and was buried at Hartshead in

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Family

On 10 April 1760, Armytage married Anna Maria Wentworth, eldest daughter of Godfrey Wentworth at St Marylebone Church in

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. They had three daughters and three sons, of whose

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, the oldest succeeded to the

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. * 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

1734 births 1783 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain British MPs 1761–1768 High Sheriffs of Yorkshire Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub