Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BOOTH, REV. JAMES (_eld. son of John Booth of Lava, co. Leitrim_). _b._ Lava 25 Aug. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., scholar 1829, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LLD. 1842; principal of Bristol college 1840–43; vice principal of Collegiate institution Liverpool 1843–48; pres. of Literary and philosophical institution Liverpool 1848–51; lectured in London for Society of Arts 1848–54, fellow 1852, treasurer and chairman of the council 1855–57; C. of St. Anne’s Wandsworth, London 1854–59; V. of Stone, Bucks. 1859 to death: F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846, F.R.A.S. 10 June 1859; author of _Education and educational institutions_ 1846; _Examination the province of the state_ 1847; _A treatise on some new geometrical methods 2 vols._ 1873–77. _d._ Stone vicarage 15 April 1878. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxix_, 219–25 (1879). BOOTH, JAMES (_4 son of Thomas Booth of Toxteth lodge near Liverpool_). _b._ 1796 or 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1824; member of Royal commission for inquiring into municipal corporations of England and Wales 1833; counsel to the speaker and examiner of recognizances Sep. 1839; prepared the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation acts 1845, and 8 other consolidation acts 1847; secretary to Board of trade 10 Oct. 1850 to 1865; member of Royal commission for inquiring into trades unions 12 Feb. 1867, which made 11 reports 1867–69; C.B. 6 July 1866; author of _The problem of the world and the church reconsidered in three letters to a friend by a Septuagenarian_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1879. _d._ 2 Princes gardens, Kensington, London 11 May 1880. BOOTH, JOHN (_son of Thomas Booth of Killerby near Catterick, Yorkshire, cattle breeder who d. 1835_). Breeder of shorthorns at Killerby 1819 to 1852; judged a great deal at cattle shows in England and Ireland; sold all his stock 21 Sep. 1852; master of the Bedale hunt 3 seasons. _d._ Killerby 7 July 1857 in 70 year. _W. Carr’s History of rise and progress of Killerby herds of shorthorns_ 1867; _Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid_ (1870) 195–207. BOOTH, JOHN KAY (_eld. son of John Booth of Brush house, Ecclesfield_). _b._ Yorkshire; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1805; L.C.P. 30 Sep. 1809; fellow Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1810; settled at Birmingham; physician to general hospital there 1812–35; physician to Queen’s hospital there; principal of Queen’s college Birm. 1856; one of founders of Medical school of Birmingham, and the first lecturer there on practice of physic. _d._ Brush house, Ecclesfield 14 Jany. 1859 aged 80. BOOTH, JUNIUS BRUTUS (_son of Richard Booth of Queen st. Bloomsbury, London, attorney who d. 1840 aged 76_). _b._ St. Pancras, London 1 May 1796; made his début on the stage at Peckham as Campillo in _The Honeymoon_ 13 Dec. 1813; played in Belgium and Holland 1814 and 1826, and at Covent Garden 1815; acted in the provinces 1818 and at Drury Lane 7 Aug. 1820 to 13 Jany. 1821; went to the United States April 1821; appeared at Park theatre New York 2 Oct. 1821; managed the Camp theatre New Orleans 1828; played at Drury Lane, Surrey and Sadler’s Wells theatres 1836–7; lived on his farm at Bel Air 30 miles from Baltimore 1842 to death; made his last appearance at St. Charles theatre New Orleans 19 Nov. 1852. _d._ on board the J. S. Chenoweth between New Orleans and Cincinnati 30 Nov. 1852. _bur._ in Greenmount cemetery Baltimore 11 Dec. _The elder and the younger Booth by A. B. Clarke_ (1882) 1–116, 3 _portraits_; _Memoirs of J. B. Booth_ (1817), _portrait_; _The tragedian by T. R. Gould_ (1868), _portrait_; _Phelps’s Players of a century_ (1880); _T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage_ (1870) 40, _portrait_. NOTE.—His son John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, pres. of the U.S. at Ford’s theatre, Washington, Good Friday 14 April 1865, he was himself shot near Bowling Green 26 April. BOOTH, RICHARD (_brother of John Booth who d. 7 July 1857_). Breeder of shorthorns at Studley farm, Yorkshire 1814–34 when he sold his herd; breeder at Warlaby, Yorkshire 1835 to death; gained many medals and prizes at cattle shows. _d._ Warlaby 31 Oct. 1864 aged