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Booth, Barton, 1681-1733
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1681-1733
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.