 Philip Armitage (1870–1960) and his wife Elizabeth Christina Armitage, née Marshall (c1875-1934), he was born in Birling in Kent on 28 March 1905 and educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge.On 28 September 1938 he married Frances Bland Tucker.He defused unexploded bombs during the blitz in 1940, notably a mine that fell on Orpington in Kent.