Rachelina Hepburn Armitage (née Stewart; 22 April 1873 – 14 May 1955) was a New Zealand welfare worker and community leader.
[1] 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.
Armitage continued her community work, founding a local branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes.
She also became a leading campaigner for the Plunket Society in rural Canterbury, an organisation which had been founded by family friend Truby King, and was Temuka branch president from 1914 to 1928, as well as being a national committee member in 1928.
[1][3] 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.