Penyston Booth
Dean of Windsor
Dean Booth's coat of arms
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseRoyal Peculiar
In office1729–1765
PredecessorGeorge Verney
SuccessorFrederick Keppel
Orders
Ordination1703 (Lincoln Cathedral)
Personal details
Born1681
Lusby, Lincolnshire
Died21 September 1765
Windsor, Berkshire
BuriedSt George's Chapel, Windsor
NationalityBritish
DenominationChristian (CofE)
ParentsThomas Booth;
Elizabeth née Penyston
OccupationPriest
Previous post(s)
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge (MA, DD)
MottoQuod ero spero

Dr Penyston Booth, FRS (1681 – 21 September 1765), also Peniston Booth,[1][2] was an 18th-century Anglican priest,[3] who hailed from the minor gentry, and served as Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.

Family

Born at Lusby, Lincolnshire, he was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Elizabeth (née Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston.[4] His family were lords of the manor of Killingholme, originally from Barton in Lancashire. An elder brother, Captain Robert Booth (died 1742), married in 1725 Lady Susannah Clinton (died 1754), daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, and sister-in-law of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Prime Minister of Great Britain).[5]

Booth married Katherine, daughter of the Revd Canon Edward Jones, in 1728. Their only child, Katherine Booth (whose eldest son was Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones) is an ancestor of the 16th and present Baroness Berners.

The Lincolnshire family are progenitors of Sir Felix Booth and a cadet branch of the Booth family which inherited the Dunham Massey estates via marriage in the 15th century; they were created Earls of Warrington in 1690.

Education

Booth was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1702, proceeding Master of Arts (MA) in 1705.

Elected a Fellow of Magdalene College in 1702, Booth was ordained in 1703 by Dr James Gardiner, Bishop of Lincoln. He was conferred with the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) by Cambridge University in 1728, having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1703.[1]

Ecclesiastical ministry

The Garter badge above a doorway to St George's Chapel.

Booth was a canon of Windsor from 1722 to 1729, before serving as dean until his death in 1765.[6]

During his ministry in the Church of England, he held the following ecclesiastical appointments:

Appointed Canon of the Second Stall of Windsor in 1722, Booth relinquished this sinecure upon becoming dean following the death of Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1728.

Dean of Windsor and ex-officio registrar of the Order of the Garter from 1729 until his death in 1765, Booth was succeeded by former bishop of Exeter, Dr. Frederick Keppel.

Booth was buried at St George's Chapel, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b www.wonderfulwolverhampton.co.uk
  3. ^ theclergydatabase.org.uk
  4. ^ Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1858), Notices and remains of the family of Tyrwhitt, pp.112-113
    W. Phillimore (1901), Some Account of the Family of Middlemore, of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, pp.250-251
    baptisms search, familysearch.org. Accessed 2020-02-18. (registration required).
  5. ^ cracroftspeerage.co.uk Archived 30 July 2012 at archive.today
  6. ^ Fasti Wyndesienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard: published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor
  7. ^ Gentleman's Magazine, 1836 (obituary of Richard Tyrwhitt)
Church of England titles Preceded byThe Rt Hon. and Very Revd The Lord Willoughby de Broke Dean of Windsor 1729–1765 Succeeded byThe Hon. and Rt Revd Frederick Keppel
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