George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead

George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead He was educated in Wiesbaden and Heidelberg, Germany.

Political career

He donated £5,000 to the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund and shortly afterwards was created Baron Armitstead, of Castlehill in the city of Dundee, on 19 July 1906, by Arthur Balfour, having refused an offer in 1893 by his great friend William Ewart Gladstone. This friendship was significant for both of them, but more comfortable than influential, which is probably why it worked so well. and was a pallbearer at Gladstone's state funeral.

He was without issue, and on his death the barony became extinct. One such trust, founded in 1882, was to support the Botanical Gardens at the University of Dundee and the Armitstead Lectures.

His nephew, also George Armitstead (Džordžs Armitsteds in Latvian) (1847–1912), was Mayor of Riga from 1901 to 1912. In 2006, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a statue of him while on tour in Latvia, in the presence of his great-grandson. His monument is in the gardens close to the Latvian National Opera. Another nephew, Henry Alfred Armitstead, served as a diplomat in Russia and seems to have been involved in an attempt to rescue Tsar Nicholas II after the Russian Revolution.

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