Langham Booth (c. 1684 – 12 May 1724) was an English courtier and member of parliament.
Langham Booth | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Liverpool | |
| In office 1723 - 12 May 1724 | |
| Member of Parliament for Cheshire | |
| In office 1705-1710 1715-1722 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1684 |
| Died | 12 May 1724 (aged 40) |
| Political party | Whig |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | George Booth (brother) Henry Robartes (nephew) George Booth (grandfather) |
A younger son of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington and his wife Mary Langham, in 1705 Booth was elected as a Whig as one of the two Members of Parliament for Cheshire and sat until 1710, in 1707 becoming one of the members of the First Parliament of Great Britain. He was elected again for the parliament of 1715 to 1722.[1]
In 1723, Booth was returned as one of the members for Liverpool, but died only a year later, when he was reported to be aged forty.[2]
He was also a Groom of the Bedchamber to King George I.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (1883 edition), p. 61
- ^ “The representation of Cheshire” in John Parsons Earwaker, ed., Local Gleanings: An Archaeological and Historical Magazine (1880), pp. 417–418