Bernard William Francis Armitage (6 July 1890 – 25 August 1976) was an English physician and psychiatrist specialising in sexual psychology.
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.
[1] He was Director of Psychotherapy at the Bethlem Royal Hospital from 1935 to 1941 and of the Medico-Psychological Department of St Bart's.
[1] On 6 December 1936, during that year's abdication crisis, Armitage wrote to Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister, about King Edward VIII's relationship with Wallis Simpson, marking his letter "Secret and Confidential".
[1] In Who's Who he stated his recreations as "painting, music, field sports and country pursuits, travel".