Booth Baronets

There have been three Booth baronetcies, the Booths of Dunham Massey being amongst the first eighteen families raised to the baronetage when the Order of Baronets was first instituted by James I in 1611. The most recent creation in 1916, still extant, was given to the Booth shipowning family of Liverpool, themselves a cadet branch of the ancient Cheshire family, being descended from the Booths of Twemlow. Additionally the baronetcy family of Gore-Booth also descends in the maternal line from the Salford branch of the ancient Booths of Dunham Massey. The other Booth baronets of Portland Place may also have been scions of the ancient family, their coat of arms alluding to a connection by displaying the distinctive boars' heads, although this is unproven. This Booth family is known for Booth's Gin and also for their sponsorship of various Polar explorations. The first was created in the Baronetage of England, the Gore-Booth baronetcy in the Baronetage of Ireland and the last two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Booth baronetcy of 1611 fell dormant upon the death of the Rev Sir George Booth, 6th Baronet in 1797.

Booth (1611)

• see Baron Delamer

Gore-Booth, formerly Gore (1760)

• Sir Booth Gore, 1st Baronet (1712-1773)
• Sir Booth Gore, 2nd Baronet (d. 1804)
• Sir Robert Newcomen Gore-Booth, 3rd Baronet (d. 1814)
• Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet (1805-1876)
• Sir Henry William Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet (1843-1900)
• Sir Josslyn Augustus Richard Gore-Booth, 6th Baronet (1869-1944)
• Sir Michael Savile Gore-Booth, 7th Baronet (1908-1987)
• Sir Angus Josslyn Gore-Booth, 8th Baronet (1920-1996)
• Sir Josslyn Henry Robert Gore-Booth, 9th Baronet (b. 1950)

Booth of Portland Place (1835)

• Sir Felix Booth, 1st Baronet (d. 1850)
• Sir Williamson Booth, 2nd Baronet (1811-1877)
• Sir Charles Booth, 3rd Baronet (1812-1896) (extinct on his death)

Booth of Allerton Beeches (1916)

• Sir Alfred Allen Booth, 1st Baronet (1872-1948)
• Sir Philip Booth, 2nd Baronet (1907-1960)
• Sir Douglas Allen Booth, 3rd Baronet (b. 1949)

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