BOOTH, JAMES (_4 son of Thomas Booth of Toxteth lodge near Liverpool_). _b._ 1796 or 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1824; member of Royal commission for inquiring into municipal corporations of England and Wales 1833; counsel to the speaker and examiner of recognizances Sep. 1839; prepared the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation acts 1845, and 8 other consolidation acts 1847; secretary to Board of trade 10 Oct. 1850 to 1865; member of Royal commission for inquiring into trades unions 12 Feb. 1867, which made 11 reports 1867–69; C.B. 6 July 1866; author of _The problem of the world and the church reconsidered in three letters to a friend by a Septuagenarian_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1879. _d._ 2 Princes gardens, Kensington, London 11 May 1880. BOOTH, JOHN (_son of Thomas Booth of Killerby near Catterick, Yorkshire, cattle breeder who d. 1835_). Breeder of shorthorns at Killerby 1819 to 1852; judged a great deal at cattle shows in England and Ireland; sold all his stock 21 Sep. 1852; master of the Bedale hunt 3 seasons. _d._ Killerby 7 July 1857 in 70 year. _W. Carr’s History of rise and progress of Killerby herds of shorthorns_ 1867; _Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid_ (1870) 195–207. BOOTH, JOHN KAY (_eld. son of John Booth of Brush house, Ecclesfield_). _b._ Yorkshire; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1805; L.C.P. 30 Sep. 1809; fellow Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1810; settled at Birmingham; physician to general hospital there 1812–35; physician to Queen’s hospital there; principal of Queen’s college Birm. 1856; one of founders of Medical school of Birmingham, and the first lecturer there on practice of physic. _d._ Brush house, Ecclesfield 14 Jany. 1859 aged 80.