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b. 18 Dec. 1622, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of William Booth† (d. 26 Apr. 1636) of Dunham Massey, and Vere (bur. 4 May 1629), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Egerton of Ellesmere, Salop.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, pp. 525-6; CP; Cheshire and Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. vi), 25-6. educ. I. Temple 9 Nov. 1637.I. Temple database. m. (1) 30 Nov. 1639 (with £6,000), Katherine (bur. 5 Aug. 1643), da. of Theophilus Clinton, 4th earl of Lincoln, 1da.; (2) lic. 14 Dec. 1644 (with £5,000), Elizabeth (d. 4 Jan. 1691), da. of Henry Grey*, 1st earl of Stamford, 7s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da.JRL, EGR1/8/3/6, 10; TW/252-6; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, pp. 526, 534; CP. suc. gdfa. as 2nd bt. 24 Oct. 1652;CB. cr. Baron Delamer of Dunham Massey 20 Apr. 1661.CP. d. 8 Aug. 1684.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. pt. 2, p. 534.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), 30 July 1642–?SP28/261, ff. 2, 397; HMC Portland, i. 94. Col. of ft. by Mar. 1644-Apr. 1645.CJ iii. 440a; Brereton Lttr. Bks. i. 14, 325, 371. Gov. Nantwich by Jan. 1644-c.Apr. 1645.Magnalia Dei (1644), 8 (E.31.13); The Kings Letter Intercepted Coming from Oxford (1644), 3; Brereton Lttr. Bks. i. 323. C-in-c (roy.) Cheshire, Lancs. and N. Wales 22 July 1659.JRL, EGR3/4/1/2/1–2.

Local: commr. to levy militia forces, Cheshire 4 Oct. 1642.JRL, EGR3/3/1/8. Dep. lt. by Dec. 1642–?Civil War in Cheshire, 240–1. Member, Cheshire co. cttee. Feb. 1643-aft. Apr. 1648.SP28/225, f. 508; HMC Portland, i. 96. Chamberlain, county palatine of Chester 5 Mar. 1645–?JRL, EGR3/4/1/1. Commr. assessment, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660. 14 Sept. 1646 – 16 Apr. 1650A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p. Lancs., 4 Mar. 1653–9 Mar. 1683;Lancs. RO, QSC/43–51, 54–84. Cheshire 9 June 1647 – 25 July 1650, 13 Oct. 1653 – 1 Oct. 1659, Mar. 1660–d.C231/6, pp. 196, 271, 442; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. Lancs. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. accommodation betw. landlords and tenants, Cheshire 21 Aug. 1654;CSP Dom. 1654, p. 318. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Nov. 1655;Cheshire RO, DLT/B38, p. 10. dividing parishes, Cheshire and Chester 10 Mar. 1656;Mins. of the Cttee. for Plundered Ministers rel. to Lancs. and Cheshire ed. W.A. Shaw (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxxiv), 115. sewers, Cheshire 12 Feb. 1658;C181/6, p. 270. poll tax, 1660.SR. Custos rot. 30 July 1660–30 May 1673.C231/7, pp. 21, 450.

Parlimentarian
BOOTH, Sir George, 2nd Bt. (1622-84), of Dunham Massey, Cheshire.
: of Dunham Massey, Bowdon, Cheshire.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1645-7;NT, Dunham Massey. ?oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1658-60;NT, Dunham Massey. oil on canvas, J. Huysman.NT, Dunham Massey.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BOOTHE, George (1622-84), of Dunham Massey, Bowdon, Cheshire.

Will
1 Aug. 1671, pr. 14 Jan. 1699.PROB11/449, f. 35.
Estates
grandfa. spent £25,240 1595-1635 on increasing the family estate.JRL, EGR3/3/3/2, no. 1. Boothe received from his grandfa. 1640-1652, maintenance of £600 p.a. from manors of Stayley, Cheshire, and Warrington, Lancs. and lands in Hattersley, Cheshire.JRL, EGR3/3/3/2, no. 4. Family estate worth about £2,000 p.a. bef. 1642.M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 281, 306, 390. In 1652, Boothe’s estate inc. manors of Altrincham, Bollin, Carrington, Dunham Massey, Hattersley, Stayley, Thornton-le-Moors and Wilmslow, Cheshire, and Arpley with Hooley, Ashton-under-Lyne, Orford and Warrington, Lancs.; Dunham Hall and Bothom’s Hall (in Hattersley); property in Altrincham, Ashley, Bollin, Bollington, Bowdon, Carrington, Dunham Massey, Elton, Hale, Hattersley, Hollingworth, Kingsley, Matley, Millington, Mottram, Norcliffe, Partington, Tintwistle, Toft and Wilmslow, Cheshire; the advowson of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, and of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.C10/22/21; Lancs. RO, DDX 3/19; JRL, EGR3/3/3/2, no. 9; Cheshire IPM ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxiv), 42-8. In 1660-3, he owned or rented a house on Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London.Survey of London, xxxvi, 231. In 1663, his lands in Cheshire were valued at £1,212 p.a.HMC 10th Rep. IV, 372. In c.1679, he settled a portion of £13,000 on his da. Elizabeth at her marriage to Edward Conway, 1st earl of Conway.CP iii. 402.
Oxford 1644
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Religion
presented Henry Shaw to rectory of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, 1662;CCEd Record ID: 62260, The Clergy of the Church of England database.. Thomas Ellison to rectory of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. 1662.Clergy of the C of E Database.
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