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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ethel_Booty > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ethel_Booty.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Booty > Source revision: 1341765385 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English photographer of buildings}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Ethel Mary Booty | birth_name = Ethel Mary Lawson | birth_date = circa 1873 | birth_place = Clapham, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1964|4|13|1873}} | resting_place = Littleham, East Devon, England | occupation = Photographer | years_active = 1940s – early 1960s }} '''Ethel Mary Booty''' ({{nee}} '''Lawson;''' {{circa}} 1873 – 13 April 1964), was an English photographer of buildings, whose work forms a collection held by [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). == Life == Ethel Mary Booty was born in Clapham, London. She was a photographer who contributed to the National Buildings Record between 1940 and the 1960s. Her photographs held in the [Historic England Archive](/source/Historic_England_Archive) focus mainly on church architecture (especially Norman fonts), as well as castles, ruined priories and villages in the south of England.{{Cite web |title=Ethel Booty, née Lawson (1873–1964) {{!}} Historic England |url=http://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/womens-history/women-photographers-in-historic-england-archive/ethel-booty/ |access-date=2020-08-18 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} She also contributed photographs to the Conway Library archive, [Courtauld Institute of Art](/source/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art), in London, which is currently undergoing a digitisation project.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=Who made the Conway Library?|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|access-date=2020-08-18|website=Digital Media|archive-date=3 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|url-status=dead}} Her Conway photographs include general views of [Bolton](/source/Bolton) (Greater Manchester), views of [Bishopsteignton](/source/Bishopsteignton), Devon, and miscellaneous ecclesiastical subjects.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}} She spent some time in India, and in [Madras](/source/Madras) on 13 January 1897 married a magistrate, Percy Abbey Booty (1873 – 14 August 1939),{{Cite book|last=Venn|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPPcP39XDDIC&q=percy+abbey+booty+1897+india&pg=PA323|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900|date=2011-09-15|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-03611-5|language=en}} who worked for the [Indian Civil Service](/source/Indian_Civil_Service).{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Great Britain India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=percy+abbey+booty+1897+india&pg=RA1-PA445|title=The India List and India Office List for ...|date=1819|publisher=Harrison and Sons|language=en}} They had a daughter, Doris Marjorie Booty (24 January 1898 – 15 January 1974).{{Cite web|title=Ethel Mary Lawson Booty (1875–1964) – Find A...|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114384563/ethel-mary-booty|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.findagrave.com|language=en}} By 1911 they had returned to England, and lived in [St Leonards-on-Sea](/source/St_Leonards-on-Sea), East Sussex. The three of them are buried under one headstone in the churchyard of St Margaret and St Andrew Church, [Littleham](/source/Littleham), East Devon. == Subjects of her photographs == The following are examples of some of the subjects that she photographed, held in the Historic England archive. === Buildings === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[Bamburgh Castle](/source/Bamburgh_Castle), Bamburgh, Northumberland (1940s-early 1950s) *[Church of St John the Baptist, Burford](/source/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist%2C_Burford), Oxfordshire (1940s-early 1960s) *[Huddington Court](/source/Huddington_Court), Huddington, Wychavon, Worcestershire (1940s) *Dunster Castle Mill, Mill Lane, [Dunster](/source/Dunster), Dunster Park, West Somerset (1940s) *[Lanercost Priory](/source/Lanercost_Priory), Burtholme, Lanercost, Carlisle, Cumbria (1940s-early 1960s) *[Tintern Abbey](/source/Tintern_Abbey), Monmouthshire (1940s-early 1960s) *[Cleeve Abbey](/source/Cleeve_Abbey), Chapter House, Old Cleeve, West Somerset (1940s) *Malt House, Upper Street, [Hollingbourne](/source/Hollingbourne), Maidstone, Kent (1940s) *South Park Farm, Smarts Hill, [Penshurst](/source/Penshurst), Sevenoaks, Kent (1940s) *[Odda's Chapel](/source/Odda's_Chapel), Deerhurst, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (1940s) *[Castle Acre Priory](/source/Castle_Acre_Priory), Priory Road, Castle Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk (1940s) *The Star Inn, High Street, [Alfriston](/source/Alfriston), Wealden, East Sussex (1940s) *[Fountains Abbey](/source/Fountains_Abbey), Harrogate, North Yorkshire (1940s) *[Rievaulx Abbey](/source/Rievaulx_Abbey), Ryedale, North Yorkshire (1940s) {{div col end}} === Objects === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Font in the Church of St Mary Magdalene, [Eardisley](/source/Eardisley), Herefordshire (1940s) *Font in the nave of the Church of St James, [Swimbridge](/source/Swimbridge), Devon (1940s-early 1960s) *Font in St Mary's Church, [Luppitt](/source/Luppitt), East Devon (1940s) *Font in St Peter's Church, [Southrop](/source/Southrop), Cotswolds, Gloucestershire (1940s) *Font in All Saints' Church, [East Meon](/source/East_Meon), East Hampshire (1940s) *Font in St Michael's Church, [Castle Frome](/source/Castle_Frome), Herefordshire (1940s) *Font in St Mary's Church, [Brancaster](/source/Brancaster), Burnham Deepdale, King's Lynn And West Norfolk (1940s) *Font in St Mary's Church, [Stalham](/source/Stalham), North Norfolk (1940s) *Font in St Mary's Church, [Childrey](/source/Childrey), Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire *Font in Holy Trinity Church, Church Street, [Lenton, Nottingham](/source/Lenton%2C_Nottingham) (1940s) *Font in Church of the Holy Rood, [Shilton](/source/Shilton%2C_Oxfordshire), West Oxfordshire (1940s) *Font in St Andrew's Church, Market Place, [Castle Combe](/source/Castle_Combe), Wiltshire (1940s) *King John's Bridge, [Tewkesbury](/source/Tewkesbury), Gloucestershire (1940s) *Butter Cross, High Street, [Winchester](/source/Winchester), Hampshire (1940s) {{div col end}} === Places === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Church Steps, Vicarage Road, [Minehead](/source/Minehead), Somerset (1940s) *[Selworthy](/source/Selworthy), West Somerset (1940s) *[Dunster](/source/Dunster), West Somerset (1940s-early 1950s) {{div col end}} == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/results/?searchType=HE+Archive+New&search=%22booty%22&filteroption=images&facetValues=facet_hid_dateTo%3A2000%3AyearTo%7C Images of Booty's work] on ''Historic England'' {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Booty, Ethel}} Category:1870s births Category:1964 deaths Category:20th-century English photographers Category:English women photographers Category:People from Clapham Category:Photographers from the London Borough of Lambeth Category:20th-century British women photographers Category:20th-century English women --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ethel Booty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Booty) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Booty?action=history)). 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