John Armitage (architect)

John Armitage (9 May 1874 – 1 November 1953) was an English architect based in Nottingham and London.

[1] He was born in 1874 in Nottingham, the son of Samuel Fox Armitage (1830–1914) and Joanna Jarrett (1836–1922).

He was educated at Bootham School, York, and then apprecenticed to Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily.

From 1902 to 1904 he took Francis Giesler Newton as an articled pupil, and from 1903 to 1904 he took William Barnet Wyllie.

On 16 March 1904, he was initiated into the Cordwainer Ward Lodge[2] and was recorded as being resident in Broad Sanctuary, London.