Robert Armitage (22 February 1866 – 10 February 1944) was Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, England, from 1906 to 1922[1] and Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1904–05.

He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He then married in 1936, Mrs Mary Dorothea Russell, widow of Rev.

[4] He gained Leeds Central from the Conservative in 1906, the first time the Liberals had won the constituency.

At the 1918 election he received endorsement by the government and did not get a Unionist opponent and was easily re-elected.