The Booth baronetcy, of Dunham Massey in the County of Chester, was created on 22 May 1611 for Sir George Booth, High Sheriff of both Lancashire and Cheshire. The Booths were one of the initial 18 families raised to the baronetage by James I in 1611. [1]
Contents
- Booth baronets, of Dunham Massey (1611)
- Barons Delamer (1661)
- Earls of Warrington (1690)
- Barons Delamer (1661) 2
- Booth baronets, of Dunham Massey
- Family and descendants
- See also
- Notes
The 2nd Baronet was his grandson, also Sir George Booth; and in 1661 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Delamer, of Dunham Massey in the County of Chester. On his death the title passed to his eldest surviving son, Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamer; he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1689 and 1690 and on 17 April 1690 he was created Earl of Warrington in the peerage of England. The earldom became extinct on the death of his son, the 2nd Earl, in 1758. [1]
The family titles then devolved upon the 2nd Earl of Warrington's first cousin, Nathaniel Booth. He was the eldest surviving son of the Hon. & Very Revd Robert Booth, Dean of Bristol, younger son of the 1st Baron. On his death in 1770 the barony became extinct. [1]
Lord Delamer was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second cousin, the Revd Sir George Booth, 6th Baronet, a grandson of Nathaniel Booth (1627–1692), younger brother of the 1st Baron.
The baronetcy became dormant on his death in 1797, [2] in the absence of a claim to the title from the senior male representative of Colonel Sir John Booth. [3]
