Sir Cecil Hamilton Armitage KBE CMG DSO (8 October 1869 – 10 March 1933) was a British colonial officer who served as Governor of the Gambia from 1920 to 1927.

In April 1894, he sailed from Liverpool to Accra, having been seconded from his regiment to serve with the Hausa Constabulary on the Gold Coast.

He held the rank of Captain at the time and served in the Anglo-Ashanti wars under Sir Francis Scott from 1895 to 1896.

However, that evening, the chief and the residents deserted the village, leaving Armitage and his police officers under siege in Tamale for a week.

Upon his retirement in 1927, Armitage commented to the Western Morning News: "I feel very much the severance of the association of almost a lifetime.