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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.

BRAMSTON, JAMES, son of Francis Bramston, Chelmsford, Essex, and Sarah, dau. of Sir William Glascock, Kt; b.; adm.; BB in 1704; QS (aged 14) 1708; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713-22 (void); BA 1717; MA 1720; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1718; ordained deacon (Oxford) 12 Jun 1720, priest (Winchester) 5 Mar 1720/1; chaplain to a regiment; Vicar of Lurgashall, Sussex, from 10 Mar 1723/4; Domestic Chaplain to John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham (qv), 5 Nov 1739; Vicar of Harting, Sussex, from 7 Nov 1739; a poet; author, The Art of Politicks, 1729, The Man of Taste, 1733, and other poems; m. (by 1 Mar 1723/4) Elizabeth ---; d. 16 Mar 1743/4. DNB.

BRETT, ARTHUR, son of John Brett, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student; BA 6 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; ordained; Rector of Templeton, Devon, 1662; Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., 10 May 1670, but shortly afterwards resigned his living and came up to London, where he fell into poverty and begged in the street; author, A Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II, 1660, and other poems; d. c. 1677. DNB.

BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS, son of Rev. William Browne, Vicar of Burton on Trent, Staffs., and Prebendary of Lichfield, and Ann, dau. of Isaac Hawkins; b. 21 Jan 1705-6; in under school lists as Browne 1715-7; adm. (or readm. ) (aged 13) Feb 1719/20, as Isaac Hawkins; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Sep 1721, matr. Easter 1723; BA 1725/6; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jun 1722, called to bar 27 Jun 1728; of Badger Hall, Shropshire; MP Wenlock 7 Dec 1744-54; FRS 2 Feb 1749/50; according to Dr Johnson he was “one of the first wits of this country” and “of all conversers the most delightful” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, ii, 339); author, De Animi Immortalitate, 1754, and other poems, an edition of which was published by his son in 1768; m. 10 Feb 1744 Jane, dau. of Ven. David Trimnel DD, Archdeacon of Leicester; d. 14 Feb 1760. DNB.