| Authorised form of name | Booth; James (1806 - 1878) |
| Dates | 1806 - 1878 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lava, County Leitrim, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 25 August 1806 |
| Place of death | The vicarage at Stone, Buckinghamshire |
| Date of death | 15 April 1878 |
| Occupation | Clergyman |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1832); MA (1840); LLD (1842)
Career:
Principal, Bristol College (1840); ordained, Bristol (1842); Professor of Mathematics and Vice Principal, Liverpool Collegiate Institution (by 1843- after 1845); moved to London (1848); Minister of St Anne's, Wandsworth (1854); Vicar of Stone, Buckinghamshire (1859); published mathematical, religious and educational works
Memberships:
FRAS (1859); MRIA
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/01/1846 |
| Relationships | Married a daughter of Daniel Watney of Wandsworth |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/62963905 |
| Code | NA7648 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MC/6/167 | Letter from James Booth, The Vicarage Stone, Aylesbury, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 2 August 1861 |
| IM/Maull/000443 | Booth, James | nd |
| RR/2/26 | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth | 3 May 1852 |
| RR/3/52 | Referee's report by James Booth, on a paper 'A memoir upon caustics' by Arthur Cayley | 10 February 1857 |
| PT/48/4/1 | Manuscript, 'On the quadrature of the logarithmic ellipse and of the logarithmic hyperbola' by Rev James Booth | [1851] |
| RR/4/121 | Referee's report by James Booth, on a paper 'On the method of symmetric products, and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Robert Harley | 11 March 1861 |
| RR/3/45 | Referee's report by James Booth, on an unnamed paper by Arthur Cayley | 23 October 1855 |
| EC/1846/03 | Booth, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PT/48/4/3 | Plate, unpublished figure showing parabolas overlaid on circle by James Booth | [1851] |
| RR/3/61 | Referee's report by James Booth, on a paper 'Supplementary researches on the partition of numbers' by Arthur Cayley | 5 February 1858 |
| PT/48/4/2 | Plate, portion of figure 17 showing paraboloid by James Booth | [1851] |
| PT/44/6 | Paper, 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by Rev James Booth | [1851] |
| PT/48/4 | Paper, 'On the quadrature of the logarithmic ellipse and of the logarithmic hyperbola' by Rev James Booth | [1851] |
| PT/48/4/4 | Plate, figure 29 showing an exponential curve by unknown engraver | [1851] |
| MC/4/305 | Letter from Reverend James Booth, 22 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, to the [Earl of Rosse] President of the Royal Society and to the Council | 29 November 1849 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| MC/5/233 | Letter from James Booth, the Vicarage, Wandsworth, to Charles R [Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society], Somerset House | 17 March 1856 |
| MS/426/584 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Rev Dr [James] Booth | 7 March 1857 |
| MC/5/276 | Letter from James Booth, the Vicarage, Wandsworth, to Charles R [Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 3 March 1857 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MC/9/203 | Letter from James Booth, The Vicarage, Stone, Aylesbury, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 May 1871 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| RR/1bis/10 | Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 1 October 1842 |
| AP/25/16 | Unpublished paper, 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 1842 |
| RR/1bis/9 | Referee's report by Benjamin Gompertz, on a paper 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 26 July 1842 |
| RR/1bis/11 | Referee's report by Thomas Stephens Davies, on a paper 'On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse' by James Booth | 6 October 1842 |
| AP/36/3 | Paper, 'On a property of numbers' by James Booth | 1854 |
| AP/39/24 | Paper, 'On the application of parabolic trigonometry to the investigation of the properties of the common catenary' by James Booth | 1857 |
| AP/31/3 | Unpublished paper, 'On the application of the theory of elliptic functions and of the properties of surfaces of the second order to the rotation of a rigid body round a fixed point' by James Booth | 1848 |
| RR/2/25 | Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth | 31 March 1852 |
| RR/2/177 | Referee's report by James Booth, on a paper 'Researches in symbolical physics. On the translation of a directed magnitude as symbolised by a product. The principles of statics established symbolically' by Matthew O'Brien | 25 November 1851 |