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George Baron Armitstead of Castlehill, Western Cemetery, Dundee His nephew, also George Armitstead ( Džordžs Armitsteds in Latvian ) (1847–1912), was Mayor of Riga from 1901 to 1912. [ 11 ] In 2006, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a statue of him [ 12 ] while on tour in Latvia, in the presence of his great-grandson. [ 13 ]
James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale; Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale; William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton; George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead; William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong; John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson
George Armitstead may refer to: George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead (1824–1912), British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal politician George Armitstead (mayor) (1847–1912), engineer, entrepreneur and mayor of Riga
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Armitstead is a surname. [1] Notable people with the surname include: Claire Armitstead, British journalist and author; George Armitstead (1847) (1847–1912), Latvian mayor; George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead (1824–1915), British businessman, philanthropist and politician; John Armitstead (1868–1941), English clergyman
George Armitstead was born in Riga, Latvia (then: Russian Empire) into a British merchant family; his uncle was George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead.. In 1869, Armitstead graduated from the Riga Polytechnical Institute with excellence, and was one of the founders of the Fraternitas Baltica fraternity.
That year, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashton of Hyde in the County of Chester. During the First World War, he served as Chairman of the Cotton Exports Committee. Apart from his political career, Ashton was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Mountfield, East Sussex, and was invested as an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University in 1923.