John Armitstead

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John Hornby Armitstead, MA (1868–1941) was a Church of England clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1932 until his death in 1941. Born into an ecclesiastical family, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained in 1892. After a curacy in Sandbach, he was the incumbent at Holmes Chapel from 1899 to 1919, then became Vicar of Sandbach in 1919. He died on 26 October 1941.