Rachelina Hepburn Armitage

Rachelina Hepburn Armitage (; 22 April 1873 – 14 May 1955) was a New Zealand welfare worker and community leader.

Biography Armitage was born as Rachelina Hepburn Stewart in Dunedin, New Zealand on 22 April 1873. She was the daughter of prominent lawyer William Downie Stewart Sr. She attended Otago Girls' High School from 1885 to 1892, and in 1893 was enrolled in Somerville College, Oxford University, where she studied modern history. In 1896 she became the first New Zealand woman BA to complete a degree at Oxford. She remained in England, becoming part of the Women's University Settlements Scheme, an organisation aimed at improving the education and welfare of working-class women and children in London. She stayed in the United Kingdom until the death of her father in 1899.

After the death of George Armitage in 1943, she helped her sister Mary take care of her ailing brother, William Downie Stewart Jr, who suffered from crippling rheumatoid arthritis. Armitage died on 14 May 1955 in Dunedin.