{{Short description|Governor of the Bank of England (died 1788)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniel Booth | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = 7 June 1788 | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Governor of the Bank of England from 1779 to 1781 | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Daniel Booth''' (died 7 June 1788)<ref name="Nichols1788">{{cite book|author=John Nichols|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tl3PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA565|year=1788|publisher=E. Cave|page=565}}</ref> was Governor of the Bank of England from 1779 to 1781. He had been Deputy Governor from 1777 to 1779. He replaced Peter Gaussen as Governor and was succeeded by William Ewer.<ref>[http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/pdfs/governors.pdf ''Governors of the Bank of England''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212181344/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/pdfs/governors.pdf |date=2012-02-12 }} Bank of England, London, 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211609/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/Documents/pdfs/governors.pdf Archived here.] Retrieved 6 March 2016.</ref> Booth's tenure as Governor occurred during the Bengal bubble crash (1769–1784).

==Life== He was the son of Daniel Booth, factor to the Canterbury weavers. He became a Bank of England director in 1761. His residence was Hutton Hall in Essex.<ref name="Nichols1788"/>

Booth had three daughters, of whom the eldest married Sir Henry Hoghton, 6th Baronet, as his second wife.<ref name="Nichols1788"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hoghton-sir-henry-1728-95|title=''Hoghton, Sir Henry, 6th Bt. (1728–95), of Walton Hall and Hoghton Tower, Lancs.'', History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref>

==See also== *Chief Cashier of the Bank of England

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