John Armitstead

John Hornby Armitstead, MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1932 until his death in 1941.

Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1868,[1] 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[2] to 1919 when he became Vicar of Sandbach.

He died on 26 October 1941.

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1876 sculpture of Armistead's grandfather, John Armitstead M.A., by George Frederic Watts , sculpted by George Nelson, at St Mary's Church, Sandbach