Peniston Booth

Penyston Booth
Dean of Windsor
Dean Booth's coat of arms
Church	Church of England
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Royal Peculiar
In office	1729—1765
Predecessor	George Verney
Successor	Frederick Keppel
Orders
Ordination	1703 (Lincoln Cathedral)
Personal details
Born	1681 Lusby, Lincolnshire
Died	21 September 1765 Windsor, Berkshire
Buried	St George's Chapel, Windsor
Nationality	British
Denomination	Christian (CofE)
Residence	The Deanery, Windsor^[1]
Parents	Thomas Booth; Anne née Penyston
Occupation	Priest
Previous post	Canon of Windsor Prebendary of Welton Canon Chancellor of St Paul's
Alma mater	Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA, DD)
Motto	Quod ero spero
Coat of arms

Penyston Booth (also spelled Peniston Booth; 1681 - 21 September 1765) was an 18th-century Anglican priest.^[2]

Booth, who hailed from the minor gentry, served as Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.

Family and education

Born at Lusby, Lincolnshire, he was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Anne (née Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston. He was descended from the Booths of Killingholme, originally from Barton in Lancashire. His eldest brother, Captain Robert Booth, married Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, and sister-in-law of Thomas Pelham-Holles (later Prime Minister of Great Britain).^[3]

Booth was educated at Lincoln School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1702, proceeding Master of Arts (MA) in 1705.

Booth married Katherine, daughter of the Revd Canon Edward Jones, in 1728. Their only child, Katherine Booth (whose eldest son was Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones) is an ancestor of the 16th and present Baroness Berners.

A cadet branch of the Booth family inherited the Dunham Massey estates via marriage in the 15th century; they were created Earls of Warrington in 1690.

The Garter badge above a doorway to St George's Chapel.

Booth was a Canon of Windsor from 1722 to 1729, before serving as Dean until his death in 1765.^[4]

Appointed Canon of the Second Stall of Windsor in 1722, Booth relinquished this sinecure upon becoming Dean following the death of Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1728.

Dean of Windsor and ex-officio Registrar of the Order of the Garter from 1729 until his death in 1765, Booth was succeeded by former Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Frederick Keppel.

Dr. Booth was buried at St George's Chapel, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.^[7]

Church of England titles
Preceded by The Rt Hon. and Very Revd The Lord Willoughby de Broke	Dean of Windsor 1729-1765	Succeeded by The Hon. and Rt Revd Frederick Keppel

Deans of Windsor

Late Medieval	William Mugge Walter Almaly Thomas Butler Richard Kingston John Arundel Thomas Manning John Faux William Morland William Dudley Peter Courtenay Richard Beauchamp Thomas Danett William Bealey John Morgan Christopher Urswick

Early modern	Christopher Bainbridge Thomas Hobbs Nicholas West John Vesey John Clerk Richard Sampson William Franklyn Owen Oglethorpe Hugh Weston John Boxall George Carew William Day Robert Bennet Giles Thomson Anthony Maxey Marco Antonio de Dominis Henry Beaumont Matthew Wren Christopher Wren Edward Hyde Bruno Ryves John Durell Francis Turner Gregory Hascard Thomas Manningham John Robinson The Lord Willoughby de Broke Peniston Booth Frederick Keppel John Harley John Douglas James Cornwallis Charles Manners-Sutton

Late modern	Edward Legge Henry Hobart George Neville-Grenville Gerald Wellesley George Connor Randall Davidson Philip Eliot Albert Baillie Eric Hamilton Robin Woods Launcelot Fleming Michael Mann Patrick Mitchell David Conner

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