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Authorised form of nameBooth; Sir; Felix (1780- 1850)
Dates1780- 1850
Date of birth1775
Place of deathBrighton
Date of death25 January 1850
ActivityCareer:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election10/04/1834
SourceSources:
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
CodeNA2513
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1834/10Booth, Sir Felix: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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