{{Short description|British Anglican priest}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = dean | name = Penyston Booth | title = Dean of Windsor | image = Coat of arms of Dean Penyston Booth.svg | image_size = 100px | alt = | caption = Dean Booth's coat of arms | church = Church of England | province = | diocese = Royal Peculiar | term = 1729–1765 | predecessor = George Verney | successor = Frederick Keppel | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1703 (Lincoln Cathedral) | consecration = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_date = 1681 | birth_place = Lusby, Lincolnshire | death_date = 21 September 1765 | death_place = Windsor, Berkshire | buried = St George's Chapel, Windsor | nationality = British | religion = Christian (CofE) | parents = Thomas Booth;<br /> Elizabeth ''née'' Penyston | occupation = Priest | profession = Theologian | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|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 = | coat_of_arms_alt = Ornements extérieurs Abbés simple.svg }} '''Penyston Booth''' (1681 – 21 September 1765), also '''Peniston Booth''',<ref name=rs/><ref name=wolv/> was an 18th-century Anglican priest,<ref>[http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/DisplayAppointment.jsp?CDBAppRedID=68688 theclergydatabase.org.uk]</ref> who hailed from the minor gentry, and served as Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765.
==Family== Born at Lusby, Lincolnshire, he was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Elizabeth (''née'' Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston.<ref>Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1858), ''Notices and remains of the family of Tyrwhitt'', pp.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UGYBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA112 112-113]<br />W. Phillimore (1901), ''Some Account of the Family of Middlemore, of Warwickshire and Worcestershire'', pp.[https://archive.org/details/someaccountoffam01phil/page/250/mode/2up/ 250-251]<br>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?surname=booth&any_place=lusby&any_year_from=1665&any_year_to=1690&father_givenname=thomas&father_surname=booth&record_country=England&record_subcountry=England%2CLincolnshire&count=20&offset=0 baptisms search], familysearch.org. Accessed 2020-02-18. (registration required).</ref> His family were lords of the manor of Killingholme, originally from Barton in Lancashire. An elder brother, Captain Robert Booth (died 1742), married in 1725 Lady Susannah Clinton (died 1754), daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, and sister-in-law of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Prime Minister of Great Britain).<ref>[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/lincoln1572.htm cracroftspeerage.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120730192849/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Lincoln1572.htm |date=30 July 2012 }}</ref>
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.
The Lincolnshire family are progenitors of Sir Felix Booth and a cadet branch of the Booth family which inherited the Dunham Massey estates via marriage in the 15th century; they were created Earls of Warrington in 1690.
==Education== Booth was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1702, proceeding Master of Arts (MA) in 1705.
Elected a Fellow of Magdalene College in 1702, Booth was ordained in 1703 by Dr James Gardiner, Bishop of Lincoln. He was conferred with the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) by Cambridge University in 1728, having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1703.<ref name=rs>{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=5&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27booth%27%29|title= Fellow Details|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate=2017-01-17}}</ref>
==Ecclesiastical ministry== [[File:Order of the Garter 01.jpg|thumb|right|180px|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.<ref>''Fasti Wyndesienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard: published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor</ref>
During his ministry in the Church of England, he held the following ecclesiastical appointments:
*Perpetual curate of Apley, Lincolnshire, 1707 *Rector of Potterhanworth, 1717 *Prebendary of Welton in Lincoln Cathedral, 1719 *Canon of Windsor, 1722–1729 *Dean of Wolverhampton, 1729<ref name=wolv>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wonderfulwolverhampton.co.uk/businesses/st-peters-church/ |title=www.wonderfulwolverhampton.co.uk |access-date=4 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134315/http://www.wonderfulwolverhampton.co.uk/businesses/st-peters-church/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, 1733.
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'' register of the Order of the Garter from 1729 until his death in 1765, Booth was succeeded by former bishop of Exeter, Dr. Frederick Keppel.
Booth was buried at St George's Chapel, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u1NIAAAAYAAJ&dq=earl+of+lincoln+-+penyston+booth&pg=PA551 ''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1836 (obituary of Richard Tyrwhitt)]</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Christianity}} * Booth family * Earls of Warrington * Dean of Windsor
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