Constituency Dates
York 1761 – 1768
Family and Education
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.
Address
Main residence: Kirklees Park, Yorks.
biography text

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;1Harris’s ‘Debates’.and 23 Nov. 1763, on Wilkes’s case.2His name appears in a list of speakers drawn up by Charles Jenkinson and sent to the King. Royal archives, Windsor.

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’.3John Fountayne to Rockingham, 28 Nov. 1767, Rockingham mss. 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’.4Rockingham to Newcastle, 16 Mar. 1768, Add. 32989, ff. 187-90.

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.

Author
J.B.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. Harris’s ‘Debates’.
  • 2. His name appears in a list of speakers drawn up by Charles Jenkinson and sent to the King. Royal archives, Windsor.
  • 3. John Fountayne to Rockingham, 28 Nov. 1767, Rockingham mss.
  • 4. Rockingham to Newcastle, 16 Mar. 1768, Add. 32989, ff. 187-90.