Henry Armitage

Dr. Henry Armitage is a character of H.P. Lovecraft's that also appears in The Illuminatus! Triogy.

Conspiratorial
In The Dunwich Horror, he is a nice old man, given to talk about cabalistic numbers and Masonic symbols.

In the trilogy, he gave, probably posthumously, a strange collection of occult books to Miskatonic University.

Trivia


 * Armitage Avenue, in Chicago, is a main street in the then-hippie neighborhood.
 * The Wilson family lived on Armitage at one point.
 * Armitage may have been named for Thomas Armitage, founder of the American Bible Union, or for a mysterious A. Armitage, a Chicago mason who may have been the father of Alderman Edward R. Armitage. Little is known about A. Armitage, other than the fact that he was listed as a mason in Chicago in 1849.