Bernard Armitage

Bernard William Francis Armitage (6 July 1890 – 25 August 1976) was an English physician and psychiatrist specialising in sexual psychology. A Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians, and the Council of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, he taught at Cambridge, the Bethlem Royal Hospital, and St Bart's.

Early life The son of William Armitage, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Armitage was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, St John's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. His mother, Clara Armitage, was a niece of Sir Jonathan Hutchinson.

Between 1910 and 1912 Armitage represented Cambridge in the three miles race against Oxford. He also ran for a combined Oxford and Cambridge team against one from Harvard and Yale and was President of the Cambridge University Ski and Ice Hockey Club. In 1918 he was appointed a Member of the British Repatriation Commission. From 1919 to 1925 he was a Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, Cambridge, and simultaneously Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge. In 1920 he was appointed as a Medical Adviser to the 1920 Summer Olympics at Antwerp.

Private life In 1938, Armitage married Lucy Mitchell Molteno, a daughter of John Charles Molteno, Jr., a South African politician, and granddaughter of Sir John Charles Molteno, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.

In Who's Who he stated his recreations as "painting, music, field sports and country pursuits, travel".

Honours Freeman of the City of London