Boothby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Basil Boothby
Basil Boothby CMG (9 September 1910 – 9 February 1990) was a British ambassador.
Career
Evelyn Basil Boothby (of the family of the Boothby baronets) was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the Diplom ...
(1910–1990), British diplomat
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Benjamin Boothby
Benjamin Boothby (5 February 1803 – 21 June 1868) was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour, one of four Australian supreme court judges removed in the 19th century. 01312 Macquarie Law Journal 21.
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(1803–1868), judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
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Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet (3 June 174423 January 1824) was a British linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included Anna Seward and E ...
(1744–1824), British poet and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet (1856–1913), British diplomat
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David Boothby
David J. Boothby (born 1944) is a retired Canadian police officer who served as the final chief of the Metro Toronto Police from 1995 to 1997, before the position was amalgamated into the Toronto Police Service. He served as chief until his retir ...
(born 1944), Canadian Police Chief
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Dora Boothby
Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was an English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships.
Biography
Boo ...
(1881–1970), English tennis player
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Frances Boothby
Frances Boothby ( fl. 1669–1670) was an English playwright and the first woman to have a play professionally produced in London.
Life
Little is known of Boothby's life but the dedications of her two extant works have led to speculation that ...
(fl. 1669–1670), English playwright
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Frederic E. Boothby (1845–1923), American railroad manager and politician
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Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known fo ...
(1867–1905), Australian-born author of the Dr. Nikola novels
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Ian Boothby
Ian Boothby (born June 8, 1967) is a multiple Shuster Award, Harvey Award and Eisner Award nominee and an Eisner Award–winning comic book creator best known for his work as the lead writer on '' Simpsons Comics'' and ''Futurama Comics'' for M ...
, comic book writer, comedian
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Josiah Boothby (1837–1916), Australian public administrator
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Neil Boothby
Dr. Neil Boothby is a psychologist and former US Government special advisor and senior coordinator to the USAID administrator on Children in Adversity, and former director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Columbia University Mai ...
, child psychologist
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Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, (12 February 1900 – 16 July 1986), often known as Bob Boothby, was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
The only son of Sir Robert Tuite Boothby, KBE, of Edinburgh and a cousin of Rosalind ...
(1900–1986), British politician
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Robert Tuite Boothby
Sir Robert Tuite Boothby Order of the British Empire, KBE (29 June 1871 – 7 February 1941) was a British banker.
Career
He was born in St Andrews in Fife, the son of Col Robert Tod Boothby of the Royal Artillery, and his wife Madeline Condie.
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(1871–1941), British banker, father of Robert Boothby
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Scott Boothby
Scott Boothby is a male hammer thrower from the United States. Boothby is ranked among the top 20 Throwers (All-Time) in USA Track and Field History (Throwing Event-Hammer Throw) by Track and Field News Magazine. He was a two time member of the USA ...
(born 1973), American hammer thrower
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Thomas Boothby of Tooley
Earl Shilton is a market town in Leicestershire, England, about from Hinckley and about from Leicester. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 10,047.
Toponymy
The town's name derives from the Old English for 'farm/settlement on a she ...
, founder of the Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire, England
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Thomas Wilde Boothby
Thomas Wilde Boothby (9 December 1839 – 19 June 1885), This reference, alone, spells his middle (preferred) name "Wylde". generally known by his full name, or as "T. Wilde Boothby", was a politician in the British colony of South Australia.
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(1839–1885), aka T. Wilde Boothby, a politician in South Australia
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Valerie Boothby (1906–1982), German actress
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William Boothby
William Robinson Boothby (26 September 1829 – 12 July 1903) was Electoral Commissioner for South Australia, in charge of every parliamentary election from 1856 to 1903.
Boothby was the eldest son of South Australian Supreme Court Justice Ben ...
(1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first Australian federal election, after whom the Division of Boothby was named
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William "Cocktail" Boothby
William T. "Cocktail Bill" Boothby (November 10, 1862, San Francisco – August 4, 1930, San Francisco) was an American bartender and writer of San Francisco, California in the years before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He tended ...
(1862–1930), bartender, mixologist, author of ''The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them''
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William M. Boothby (1918–2021), American mathematician
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