William Armitage (1815 – 1893) was a British Cotton Magnate, the brother of Elkanah Armitage, and the uncle of Benjamin Armitage.
In 1851, William Armitage was on the Management Committee of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, alongside Mr James Brydon, Mr H. Dixon, Reverend J. Gwyther, Mr Nicholas Heald, Chairman Mr Joseph Adshead, Mr W. F. Hoyland, Mr W. R. Johnson, Mr G. Robinson, Mr Josiah Roberts, Mr W. H. Rickards, Reverend C. F. Smith, Mr James Sigismund Stern, Mr James Thompson, Mr Henry Waterhouse, and Mr Edwin Waters.
Also associated with the hospital were: the Mayor of Manchester, Robert Barnes (1800 – 1871), Sir John Potter, Reverend Canon Slade of Bolton, Reverend Richard Durnford, Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, John MacDowall M.D., John Edward Norton, Edward Phillips, Alfred Crosby Pope, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, Robert Walker, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, and many others.
Like his brother Elkanah Armitage, William Armitage was a lifelong friend and supporter of John Bright.
William Armitage was a patron of Lancashire Independent College.
In 1851, a public meeting was held in Manchester, where William Armitage, Henry Dixon, Richard Durnford, William Philip Harrison, Walter R Johnson, George Stevenson Knowles, Alfred Crosby Pope, William W Scholefield, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, Arthur de Noe Walker and many others, decided that homeopathy required the protection of a Royal Charter or a Legal Enactment to protect it from their enemies, and they proposed that a Branch of the General Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners be immediately set in motion, noting that in London an Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners was already up and functioning.
Of interest:
Elkanah Armitage DL (1794 – 1876), brother of William Armitage, father of Benjamin Armitage, was a British industrialist and Liberal politician. Elkanah Armitage was a Sponsor of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital,
Benjamin Armitage (1823 – 1899), son of Elkanah Armitage, nephew of William Armitage, was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.
Edward Armitage (1817 – 1896), a relative of Elkanah Armitage and William Armitage, was an English Victorian era painter whose work focused on historical, classical and biblical subjects. His brother Thomas Rhodes Armitage founded the Royal National Institute of the Blind.
Thomas Rhodes Armitage (1824 – 1890), a relative of Elkanah Armitage and William Armitage, was a British physician, and founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
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