The Ven. John Hornby Armitstead, MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1932 until his death in 1941.
Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1868,His father was Canon J. R. Armitstead, sometime Vicar of Sandbach and Hon. Canon of Chester > ‘ARMITSTEAD, Ven. John Hornby’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 16 July 2012 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"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 to 1919 when he became Vicar of Sandbach.
He died on 26 October 1941. Obituary The Ven J.H Armistead The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 06, 1941; pg. 7; Issue 49076. (247 words)
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