George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (2 May 1675 – 2 August 1758) was an English peer and landowner, who amassed a fine collection of silver.

Life

Born at Mere Hall, Cheshire, on 2 May 1675, the second son of

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, by Mary Langham, daughter of Sir James Langham Bt, of

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, he was known by the

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of ''Lord Delamer'' before succeeding to the family titles upon his

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's death in 1694. Apart from being a renowned collector of

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, he received the appointment of

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, another nobleman being nominated to discharge the duties during his minority. In 1739, he wrote, ''Considerations upon the Institution of Marriage, with some thoughts concerning the force and obligation of the marriage contract, wherein is considered how far divorces may or may not be allowed, By a Gentleman. Humbly submitted to the judgment of the impartial.'' It is an argument in favour of divorce on the ground of incompatibility of temper. From other sources we learn that he had been convinced of the advisability of admitting this as a sufficient reason by his own unhappy experiences. Luttrell states that the lady had a fortune of £40,000, and Philip Bliss, in a manuscript note in a copy of Walpole's ''Royal and Noble Authors'', now in the

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, adds: Of the

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and his

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there is an unflattering description in a letter by Mrs. Bradshaw, printed in ''Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk'' (1824), i. 97: George Booth

Besides his pamphlet on divorce the earl was the author of a letter to the writer of the "Present State of the Republic of Letters", vindicating his father from the reflections against him in Burnet's ''History of his own Time''. Warrington died on 2 August 1758, and was buried in the ''Booth Chapel'', the

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, at Bowdon Church, 3 miles (4.8 km) from

Dunham Massey Hall Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey, in the district of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. During World War I, it was temporarily used as the Stamford Milita ...

Family

In 1702, Lord Warrington married Mary Oldbury, daughter of Sir John Oldbury, a

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, of St Dunstan's in the East, by his wife, Mary Bohun. Mary, Countess of Warrington, died in 1740, having given birth to an only child, their daughter and heiress, Lady Mary Booth, who married in 1736 Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, who inherited the estates in Cheshire and Lancashire. Upon his death, the

earldom Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The titl ...

of Warrington became extinct, whilst the other family titles of Baron Delamer and the

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, created in 1611, devolved upon his cousin, Nathaniel Booth. Their only daughter, Lady Mary Booth, became the Countess of Stamford upon marrying Henry Grey, 4th

Earl of Stamford Earl of Stamford was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby. This Grey family descended through Lord John Grey, of Pirgo, Essex, younger son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dor ...

, and she inherited all the Booth estates, including Dunham Massey Hall and Staley Hall. Their son, George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford, was recreated in 1796

Earl of Warrington The Earldom of Warrington is a title which has been created twice in British history, in 1690 and 1796. For information on the 1690 creation, see Booth baronets. For information on the 1796 creation, see Earl of Stamford. See also * Dunham M ...

in addition to the Stamford title, the family being known as ''Earls of Stamford and Warrington'' (until the death in 1905 of the dowager Countess Katharine, widow of

George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford George Harry Booth-Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford and 3rd Earl of Warrington (7 January 1827 – 2 January 1883) was an English cricketer, landowner and peer of the realm, peer, who sat on the Whigs (British political party), Whig benches in the Hou ...

References

;Attribution

Sources

* '' Collins Peerage'' * ''Burkes Peerage'' (1970 edition), ''q.v.'' ''Stamford, E''
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George Booth (1675–1758), 2nd Earl of Warrington
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External links

www.burkespeerage.com

www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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