Vernon armitage biography

George Armitage was a cloth manufacturer who resided at Milnsbridge House.

Biography

He was born on 24 September 1806, the son of Joseph Armitage and his wife Anne (née Taylor), and baptised on 24 September 1806 at Huddersfield.

He married Caroline Jane Dowker, daughter of James Dowker of North Dalton, on 24 August 1830. The couple had seven known children:

• Kate Armitage (c.1835-1872) — married Rev. Henry Freer Radford (Rector of Broughton)
• Caroline Jane Armitage (1835-1926) — married Rev. James Hope (Vicar of Halifax)
• Joseph Armitage Armitage (1840-1898) — married Julia Frances Pollard
• (Rev.) George Dowker Armitage (1845-1913) — married Maltida Constance Lawe
• Gertrude Armitage (c.1846-1913) — married George Buchanan
• Edith Armitage (c.1849-?)
• Frances Vernon Armitage (c.1850-?)

He was appointed a country magistrate in 1848 and became a borough magistrate in December 1870.

He resided at Milnsbridge House before purchasing the Nunthorpe Estate near York for his retirement, where he died on 19 February 1878, aged 72.

In their obituary, the Huddersfield Chronicle noted that he had held the following positions at various points during his life:

• Commissioner of the Ramsden Canal
• Road Commissioner
• Income Tax Commissioner
• Director and Chairman of the Huddersfield Banking Company
• Improvement Commissioner
• Trustee of the West Riding Charity
• Churchwarden of St. Paul's Church
• Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce
• President of the Milnsbridge Mechanics' Institute
• President of the Church Institute
• President of the Huddersfield Conservative Association (1861-66)
• Chairman of the Huddersfield Church Extension Committee
• Trustee of the Huddersfield Saving Bank
• Member of the Finance Committee of the West Riding

Notes and References

Continued from our Michaelmas 2013 edition of HB Resurgo, which can be read here.

We have a growing body of alumni abroad with fascinating stories of their journey from Hild Bede to all over the world:  LA to the Cayman Islands, Malaysia to Bermuda, and everywhere in between. Please read some of the interesting articles we have asked alumni to contribute, below, to find out just how far spread and diverse our pool of alumni truly are.

Africa

Uganda

To find out more about Nicola’s experiences in Uganda, visit her blog: http://nicolamoloney.wordpress.com/

Sitting on the grass with an incredible view of Bwindi Impenetrable forest planning a science lesson on rabbit diseases whilst goats and chickens roam around me is a slight culture shock compared to the life I was living a few months ago in Durham. I’m not sure I could be anywhere more different than the quaint city of Durham. I have been working in Southwest Uganda for two and half months now and don’t want to leave. I am teaching a class of 41 eight to twelve year olds English, Maths and Science everyday. I can only but try to describe how different the children are here compared to the UK. They are desperate to learn and discover new things because they know that will be their only ticket out of poverty. These kids are incredibly hard working and have a drive to learn that I’ve never quite seen, or thought could be seen. With limited resources, I have had no technology or sets of texts books to rely on, literally just a blackboard and a piece of chalk.

South Africa

On completion of my time at St Hild’s I went to the Victoria and Albert University at Manchester where I completed a certificate to be a Teacher of the Deaf, I then worked in 2 hard of hearing units attached to primary schools. One year in Northumberland and and almost three years in West Ewell , Surrey. Most of m

Constituent college of Durham University

The College of St Hild and St Bede, commonly known as Hild Bede, is a constituent college of Durham University in England. With over 1000 student members, The co-educational college was formed in 1975 following the merger of two much older single-sex institutions, the College of the Venerable Bede for men and St Hild's College for women.

Hild Bede is neither a Bailey nor a Hill college, and is situated on the banks of the River Wear between Durham's bailey and Gilesgate. As of 2024, the college is based temporarily at Rushford Court whilst the riverside site is undergoing renovation.

History

The College of the Venerable Bede, for men, was founded in 1839 with a small number of trainee schoolmasters. The college was expanded greatly over the next few decades with the assistance of trade unionist and future local MPWilliam Crawford, who would later become the college's treasurer. Its sister institution, St Hild's College, was opened for the education of women on an adjacent site in 1858. Both colleges initially specialised in teacher training but in 1892 for Bede and 1896 for Hild they became associated with the federal University of Durham, offering BA and BSc degrees alongside teaching in education. Graduates of St Hild's were the first female graduates from Durham in 1898. The Chapel of the Venerable Bede, completed in 1939 to celebrate Bede College's centenary, was designed by the architectural partnership of Seely & Paget.

The two colleges retained links throughout the next century with shared teaching and facilities. In the 1960s they constructed the shared Caedmon Complex. It was then that it was decided that the colleges should be formally merged and in 1975 they became the unitary College of St. Hild and St. Bede, a recognised college of the university. In 1979 Hild Bede joined the College Council, becoming a full co

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