Person Booth; Sir; Felix (1780- 1850) Booth Felix Sir 1780- 1850 Male 3 June 1780 Brighton 25 January 1850

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 Fellow 10/04/1834 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1775 - 25 Jan 1850 NA2513 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 02/08/2024 RS_NET\rupert Yes fcc9845f-d753-44bb-9b68-d61209145978