BOOKER, BERTLEY, son of Thomas Booker, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford (aged 18) 1649, matr. 26 Nov 1650, Westminster Student; BA 17 Feb 1652/3 (as Barclay Booker).
BOOKER, GEORGE EDWARD NUSSEY, brother of Josias Antony Nussey Booker (qv); b. 14 Mar 1867; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1882; left Apr 1883; Non-Coll., Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1884; migr. to Exeter Coll. 1885; 2nd Lieut., 5th Dragoon Guards, 15 Nov 1887; Lieut., 21 Nov 1894; retd. 1894; Staff Capt., Remounts Dept., South African War, 1899-1902; Capt. and temp. Lieut. -Col. commanding 1st and 4th Reserve Regts. of Cavalry during 1914-18 war; Lieut. -Col., Reserve of Officers; despatches; CBE 3 Jun 1919; JP (1909) Herefordshire; m. 2 Feb 1892 Edith Mary, dau. of Henry Frederic Tiarks, Foxbury, Chislehurst, Kent, merchant banker; d. 27 Aug 1938.
BOOKER, JOSIAS ANTONY NUSSEY, eldest son of Rev. George Booker, Perpetual Curate of St. John the Baptist, Holland Road, Kensington, and Rachel Elizabeth, third dau. of John Nussey, Chislehurst, Kent; b. 15 Jul 1865; adm. (H) 23 Sep 1880; left Mar 1883; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Oct 1883; of Wessington Court, Woolhope, Herefordshire; DL Herefordshire, JP (1892) Herefordshire; m. 13 Oct 1887 Blanche Mabel, younger dau. of Maj. Richard W. Brettingham, Waveney Lodge, Brighton; d. 10 Mar 1922.
BOOKER, RICHARD, son of Richard Booker, Horsham, Sussex, and Anne Hill; bapt. 20 Jan 1630/1; adm.; KS in 1644; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1646, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1646, scholar 1647, matr. Mich. 1649; BA 1649/50; MA 1653; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1650; adm. Gray’s Inn 14 Jun 1651; d. 1655, aged 25; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
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BOONE, THOMAS; b.; adm. 7 Feb 1774; left 1777. [Russell Barker and Stenning identify him as Thomas Boone, son of Rev. William Boone, Taunton, Somerset, Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Nov 1784, aged 17; BA 1788, but identification seems doubtful. If so, his mother was Elizabeth Long]
BOORNE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1582, adm. scholar 1583, matr. Easter 1583; BA 1586/7; MA 1590; BD 1597; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1589; ordained; Vicar of Flintham, Notts., 1601-7; d. c. 1609.
Boot, William Henry Gilbert, son of Capt. Henry Percy Boot RFC, aeronautical engineer, and Eveline Hilda, d. of William Radford of Warwick; b. 30 July 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left Mar. 1926; staff of Savoy Hotel 1926-61; RASC 1945 (Capt.); re-employed at Claridges 1972-8; d. 13 Feb. 1992.
BOOTH, AUGUSTUS AUDLEY NEVILLE, son of Neville Jackson (qv); b. 26 May 1857; adm. 4 Mar 1872 (James'); left May 1876; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. 30 Sep 1876, matr. Mich. 1876; assumed surname of Booth in lieu of Jackson 20 Aug 1878; lived at Vilvorde, Belgium; m. Margaret Portia O’Brien.
BOOTH, BARTON, son of John Booth, Lancashire, a relative of the Earl of Warrington; b. 1681; at school 1689-98 (Memoirs of the life of Barton Booth, 1733); while at Westminster he is said to have shown “a very promising genius for the stage”, acting in a school performance of a tragedy by Seneca in 1693 and playing the part of Pamphilus in the Andrea, 1695; although intended for the church, he became an actor and made his first public appearance at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, as Oroonoko in Jun 1698; played secondary parts at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1700-4; accompanied Betterton to the new theatre in the Haymarket, 1705, and in 1708 appeared at Drury Lane; his performance as Cato on 14 May 1713 established his reputation as a great tragic actor; became manager at Drury Lane; his acting career was interrupted by a serious illness in 1727; he returned to the stage 19 Dec 1727 but was compelled by ill-health to retire in the following year; Barton Street and Cowley Street, Westminster, were built by him early in the eighteenth century on the site of the Great Ostery Garden, of which he had obtained a lease; he wrote some poems, and was the author of The Death of Dido, a Masque, 1716; m. 1st, 25 May 1704 Frances, second dau. of Sir William Barkham, Bart.; m. 2nd, 3 Aug 1719 (IGI) Hester Santlow, a dancer; d. 10 May 1733; monument in Poets’ Corner of the Abbey. DNB.