John Armitstead
Anglican Archdeacon
About John Armitstead
Lived 1868 – 1941 (aged 72–73).
1876 sculpture of Armistead's grandfather, John Armitstead M.A., by George Frederic Watts, sculpted by George Nelson, at St Mary's Church, Sandbach The Ven. John Hornby Armitstead, MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1932 until his death in 1941.
Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1868, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1892. After a curacy in Sandbach he was the incumbent at Holmes Chapel from 1899 to 1919 when he became Vicar of Sandbach.
He died on 26 October 1941.
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Anglican Archdeacon (1868-1941)
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John Armitstead was born in 1868.
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John Armitstead died on 26 October 1941.
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