Dr Penyston Booth, (1681 – 21 September 1765), also Peniston Booth, was an 18th-century Anglican

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, who hailed from the minor gentry, and served as

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from 1729 to 1765.

Family

Born at

Lusby, Lincolnshire Lusby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Situated about west from Spilsby, and about east from Horncastle, the village was a civil parish, but it now lies in that of Lusby-with-Winceby, which reported a popula ...

, he was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Elizabeth (''née'' Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston. His family were

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of Killingholme, originally from Barton in Lancashire. An elder brother,

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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 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, (21 July 169317 November 1768) was a British Whig statesman who served as the 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Great Britain, his official life extende ...

(

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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

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of the

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which inherited the Dunham Massey

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via marriage in the 15th century; they were created Earls of Warrington in 1690.

Education

Booth was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and

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, receiving a

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(BA) degree in 1702, proceeding

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(MA) in 1705. Elected a

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of Magdalene College in 1702, Booth was

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in 1703 by Dr James Gardiner,

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. He was conferred with the degree of

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(DD) by

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in 1728, having been elected a

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(FRS) in 1703.

Ecclesiastical ministry

Booth was a

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from 1722 to 1729, before serving as dean until his death in 1765. During his ministry in the

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, he held the following ecclesiastical appointments: *Perpetual curate of Apley, Lincolnshire, 1707 *Rector of Potterhanworth, 1717 *Prebendary of Welton in

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, 1719 *Canon of Windsor, 1722–1729 *Dean of

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, 1733. 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

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from 1729 until his death in 1765, Booth was succeeded by former

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, Dr. Frederick Keppel. Booth was buried at

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, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1836 (obituary of Richard Tyrwhitt)
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References

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