Diocese Royal Peculiar Nationality English Successor Frederick Keppel | Province Canterbury In office 1729—1765 Name Peniston Booth Ordination 1703 | |
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Died September 21, 1765, Windsor, United Kingdom Place of burial St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, United Kingdom Similar People George III of the United Ki, George VI, Edward IV of England, George V, Princess Margaret - Countess | ||
Penyston Booth (also spelled Peniston Booth; 1681 - 21 September 1765) was an 18th-century English priest in the Church of England. He was the Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.
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Family and education
Booth was born in Lusby, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Anne (nee Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston. He was descended from the Booths of Killingholme. His eldest brother, Captain Robert Booth, married Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, and sister-in-law of Thomas Pelham-Holles (later British prime minister). A collateral branch of the Booth family inherited the Dunham Massey estate and were Earls of Warrington.
Booth was educated at Lincoln 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 James Gardiner, Bishop of Lincoln. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) by Cambridge University in 1728.
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.
Ministry
Booth was a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1722 to 1729 and Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.
Booth also held the following positions:
In 1722, Booth was appointed to the second canon's stall of St George's Chapel, Windsor. He held this sinecure until 1729 when he was appointed dean. He succeeded the Very Revd George Verney (alias Lord Willoughby de Broke) as the ex-officio registrar of the Order of the Garter.
Booth was buried at St George's Chapel, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.