John Boothe
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Archdeacon John Boothe (variously spelled Booth, Bothe etc; 1495 – 1542) was a 16th-century English priest.[1]
Life
The second son of Roger Booth, of Mollington, Cheshire,[2] he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his elder brother, Thomas Booth, in 1528, when he is described as being thirty-three years of age.[2]
Booth was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford,[2] where he graduated as BA in 1512, proceeding MA in 1516.[3] Collated to the archdeaconry of Hereford on 29 January 1522 o.s. (1523 n.s.)[2][4] Archdeacon Booth died on 15 August 1542[2][4] and his niece, Agnes Booth, daughter of his younger brother, Charles Booth, was found to be his heir then aged nine years.[2]
