George Macaulay Booth (22 September 1877 - 10 March 1971) was a British businessman, and a director of the

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. George Macaulay Booth was born on 22 September 1877 in London, the son of the social reformer Charles Booth and his wife Mary Catherine Macaulay. From 1936 to 1937, he was

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, and living at 28

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. He declined Lloyd George's offer of a

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y. On 6 October 1906, he married Margaret Meinertzhagen (1880-1959), daughter of Daniel Meinertzhagen VI and Georgina Potter. Her brother was the naturalist

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(1878-1967).

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