Constituency Dates
Castle Rising 25 Feb. 1757 – 1768
Ashburton 1768 – 1784
Castle Rising 1784 – 1796
Family and Education
b. ?1729, 1st s. of Charles Boone by 2nd w. Mary, da. of Thomas Garth of Harrold, Beds., wid. of George Evelyn of Godstone, Surr. educ. Eton 1742-5; Trinity Coll. Camb. 10 Feb. 1746, aged 16. m. (1) 22 Oct. 1762,18 Dec. 1762, according to the register of St. George, Hanover Square. Theodosia (d. 9 Jan. 1765), da. and h. of John Crowley of Barking Hall, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 16 Jan. 1768, Harriet née Wright of Roehampton, Surr., 1s. d.v.p. 1da. suc. bro. Daniel Boone to Lee Place 1770.
Address
Main residences: Barking Hall, Suff.; Lee Place, Kent.
biography text

In his last Parliament Boone continued to sit for Castle Rising on the Walpole interest, as an old and respected friend of the family who gave a silent support to Pitt’s administration. In April 1791 he was listed hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland. He ‘left no mark as a politician’2EHR, liv. 461; Horace Walpole’s corresp. with him is ‘missing’ (Corresp. (Yale ed.), xxxii. 355n). Lord Sheffield in his list of Members who attended the ‘third party’ meeting of 17 Feb. 1793 (Add. 34448, f. 296) appears to include ‘Boone’, but no confirmation of this has been found. and retired in 1796. He died ‘in his ninetieth year’, 3 Mar. 1819, worth nearly half a million, which was inherited by his daughter Harriet, wife of (Sir) William Drummond.3Gent. Mag. (1819), 284.

Author
R.G.T.
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Notes
  • 1. 8 Dec. 1762, according to the register of St. George, Hanover Square.
  • 2. EHR, liv. 461; Horace Walpole’s corresp. with him is ‘missing’ (Corresp. (Yale ed.), xxxii. 355n). Lord Sheffield in his list of Members who attended the ‘third party’ meeting of 17 Feb. 1793 (Add. 34448, f. 296) appears to include ‘Boone’, but no confirmation of this has been found.
  • 3. Gent. Mag. (1819), 284.