| Authorised form of name | Booth; Sir; Felix (1780- 1850) |
| Dates | 1780- 1850 |
| Date of birth | 3 June 1780 |
| Place of death | Brighton |
| Date of death | 25 January 1850 |
| Activity | Career:
City merchant; head of Booth and Co distillers; Sheriff of London (1828); gave money towards Captain John Ross's voyage of discovery to NE America (1829-1833) and had the Boothia Peninsula and the Gulf of Boothia named after him.
Freemason, initiated, 28 February 1814, passed 23 May 1814, Somerset House Lodge No 2, No 4 from 1814, subsequently Royal Somerset and Inverness Lodge no 4 London
Honours:
Bt 1835 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/04/1834 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' 2010 page 10 |
| Royal Society code | NA2513 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1834/10 | Booth, Sir Felix: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |