On 9 May 1722 he was appointed canon of Windsor; on 26 April 1729 was installed dean of Windsor; and on 23 July 1733 was collated chancellor of London. By 1749 he had made many improvements in the deanery. Two of the plates in Pote's ‘History of Windsor,' concerning St. George’s Chapel (pp. 60 and 72), are inscribed to him and his canons. He died on 21 Sept, 1765, aged 84.
[Cooke's The Preacher’s Assistant, i. 376, ii. 45, Le Neve's Fasti (Hardy). ii. 361, iii. 376, 407; Pote's Hist. of Windsor, 60, 72, 123, 411, 413; Gent. Mag., 1765, xxxv. 143; private information.]
BOOTH, ROBERT (d. 1657), puritan divine, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1606–7. He graduated M.A. in 1610, at which time he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He was curate of Sowerby-bridge Chapel near Halifax, 1635–46, and in 1650 became minister of Halifax, where he was buried on 28 July 1657.
He was author of: 1. ‘Synopsis totius Philosophiæ,' Harl. MS. 5356. This learned book, which is in an elegant handwriting, and illustrated with synoptical tables, is dedicated to Dr. Neville, master of Trinity College. 2. ‘Encomium Herovm, carmine ἀκροστίχῳ tentatvm,’ London, 1620, 4to. Dedicated to Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, lord high chancellor of England.
[Hallifax and its Gibbet-law (1708), 81; Watson’s Hist. of Halifax (1775), 370, 443, 461; Cooper's manuscript collections for Athenæ Cantab.; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, iii. 533; Palmer's Nonconformists' Memorial, iii. 436; Green's Cal. of Domestic State Papers, ii. 22; Dugdale's Visitation of the County of Yorke (ed. Davies), 17, 358.]
BOOTH, Sir ROBERT (1626–1681), chief justice of the king‘s bench in Ireland, the son of Robert Booth of Salford, by his wife, a daughter of Oswald Moseley, esq., of Ancoats, Manchester, was baptised at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, on 2 July 1626. After the death of his father, his mother remarried the Rev. Thomas Case, a staunch parliamentarian, who directed Booth’s education. He attended Manchester grammar school, was entered at Gray's Inn on 18 Feb. 1641-2, and proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner, on 20 Sept. 1644. At Cambridge Henry Newcome, the author of the well-known diary, was a fellow-student. Booth was called to the bar on 26 Nov. 1649, and practised in London. Some letters of his, dated February 1659-60, are among the Legh MSS. at Lyme Hall, and prove that he regarded the Restoration with equanimity. On 1 Dec. 1660 he was appointed, on the recommendation of the chancellor of Ireland, Sir Maurice Eustace, and on account of his learning and loyalty, third judge in the Irish court of common pleas. Booth was knighted on 15 May 1668, became chief justice of common pleas in Ireland in 1669, and chief justice of the king's bench in Ireland in 1679. He was buried at Salford on 2 March 1680–1. He married his first wife, a daughter of Spencer Potts, esq., about 1651. The death of a son Benjamin by this marriage, at the age of eleven, is referred to at length in ‘Mount
Pisgah’ (1670), a work of Thomas Case, Booth’s stepfather. Booth's second wife was a daughter of Sir Henry Oxendon of Deane, near Wingham, Kent; she died on 27 Oct. 1669, leaving four daughters. Booth's will, dated 2 Aug. 1680, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, proves him to have possessed several Irish estates.
[A detailed notice of Booth by J. E. Bailey, F.S.A., in Notes and Queries, 6th ser., ix. 130–2; see also Moseley Family Memoirs, p. 36; Gastrell's Notitia Cestriensis, ii. 94; Lascelles's Liber Hiberniæ; Newcome's Diary (Chatham Soc.), pp. 137, 305; Booker's Hist. of Blackley, p. 20; Manchester Foundations, ii. 85.]
BOOTH, SARAH (1793–1867), actress, was born, according to Oxberry (Dramatic Biography), in Birmingham, in the early part of the year 1793. She is first heard of at Manchester, where, about 1804, she and her sister appeared as dancers. She remained there under the management of the elder Macready, who promoted her to the performance of characters such as Prince Arthur in ‘King John.’ In Doncaster, to which town as a member of Tate Wilkinson's company she subsequently went, a performance of Alexina in Reynolds’s ‘The Exile,’ a character resigned in consequence of illness by Mrs. Stephen Kemble (Miss Satchell), attracted attention. Elliston, then managing the Royal Circus, which he rechristened the Surrey, heard of her. Her first appearance in London was made at this theatre in 1810 as Cherry, in a burletta founded on the ‘Beaux' Stratagem,’ Elliston himself playing Archer. On November 23 of the same year she played for the first time at Covent Garden, enacting Amanthis in the ‘Child of Nature,’ an adaptation from the French by Mrs. Inchbald. She remained at Covent Garden playing in the ‘Miller and his Men,’ the ‘Dog of Montargis,’ the ‘Little Pickle,’ &c., and being occasionally allowed to assume a character like Juliet. The rising fame of Miss O’Neil wrested from Sally Booth, as she
