BOOSEY, THOMAS. Foreign bookseller at 28 Holles st. Cavendish sq. London; published Italian operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi down to 1854, when deprived of all his foreign copyrights by a decision of the House of Lords. _d._ 27 Notting hill sq. London 25 Oct. 1871 aged 76. _C. Clark’s House of Lords Cases iv_, 815–996 (1855). BOOTH, REV. GEORGE (_youngest son of Wm. Booth of Masbrough, Yorkshire_). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., pensioner; matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 16 May 1811 aged 19, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, B.D. 1823; fellow of Magdalen coll., vice pres. 1830, dean of divinity 1832; V. of Findon, Sussex 1833 to death; privately printed a quarto vol. of Latin poetry entitled _Nugæ Canoræ_ 1826; composed a school song entitled _Sicut lilium, carmen hortativum_ which is regularly sung by boys of Magdalen school on their breaking up. _d._ Findon vicarage 21 June 1859 in 68 year. BOOTH, HENRY (_eld. son of Thomas Booth of Liverpool, corn merchant_). _b._ Rodney st. Liverpool 4 April 1788; a corn merchant; one of chief promoters of scheme for making a railway between Liverpool and Manchester 1822, sec. and treasurer of the company 1826, managing director, the line was begun June 1826 and opened 15 Sep. 1830; suggested the multitubular boiler, coupling screws, spring buffers, and lubricating material for carriage axles, all of which are still used; sec. for northern section of London and North-Western railway July 1846, a director of the company October 1848 to 18 May 1859, presented by the Company with 3000 guineas 12 Oct. 1846 and 5000 guineas 9 April 1859; author of _Sebastian a tragedy_ 1823; _The rationale of the currency question_ 1847; _Master and man a dialogue_ 1853, and many other small books. _d._ Eastbourne, Princes park, Liverpool 28 March 1869. _Memoir of the late Henry Booth by Robert Smiles_ (1869). BOOTH, REV. JAMES (_eld. son of John Booth of Lava, co. Leitrim_). _b._ Lava 25 Aug. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., scholar 1829, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LLD. 1842; principal of Bristol college 1840–43; vice principal of Collegiate institution Liverpool 1843–48; pres. of Literary and philosophical institution Liverpool 1848–51; lectured in London for Society of Arts 1848–54, fellow 1852, treasurer and chairman of the council 1855–57; C. of St. Anne’s Wandsworth, London 1854–59; V. of Stone, Bucks. 1859 to death: F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846, F.R.A.S. 10 June 1859; author of _Education and educational institutions_ 1846; _Examination the province of the state_ 1847; _A treatise on some new geometrical methods 2 vols._ 1873–77. _d._ Stone vicarage 15 April 1878. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxix_, 219–25 (1879).