Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet

Colonel Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet (c. 1714 – 21 May 1777), was an English Tory politician and militia officer.

Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, as Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia, portrait c.1759 by David Morier

Wodehouse was born in 1714, the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor. His unusual first name reflects his connection with the Armine baronets through his grandmother Anne Armine. He was elected to the House of Commons for Norfolk in 1737, a seat he held until 1768. In 1754 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to the family seat of Kimberley Hall in Norfolk. He was appointed Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia in 1758 and held the command until succeeded by his eldest son in 1774.

Wodehouse married Letitia Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet, in 1738. He died in 1777 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John, who was created Baron Wodehouse in 1797 and who was the great-grandfather of statesman John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley. Wodehouse's second son, Reverend Philip Wodehouse (1745–1811), was the great-grandfather of the author P. G. Wodehouse, while his third son, Thomas Wodehouse, was the grandfather of the colonial administrator Sir Philip Wodehouse.

References

• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
• Col Sir Charles Harvey, The History of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (late East Norfolk Militia), London: Jarrold, 1899.
• History of Parliament Online
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• www.thepeerage.com