Nathaniel Booth, 4th Baron Delamer (9 June 1709 – 9 January 1770) was an English peer who served as Chairman of Committees in the

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from 1765.

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The 6th and eldest surviving son of Dr Robert Booth,

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, he succeeded in the family titles as Baron Delamer and a

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upon the death in 1758 of his cousin George, Earl of Warrington, being a patrilineal descendant of the ''1st Baron Delamer'' but not of the ''1st Earl of Warrington''; the

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estates were left to the

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via

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's marriage. In 1743, Nathaniel Booth married Margaret, daughter of Richard Jones, of

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. Lord and Lady Delamer lived in London at

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and at

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; they had two sons, both of whom died young, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who died unmarried in 1765. Lady Delamer died in 1773. When Lord Delamer died in 1770 the

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y ('' cr.'' 1661) became

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whilst the baronetcy was inherited by his second cousin and heir male,

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Sir George Booth George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (18 December 16228 August 1684), was an English landowner and politician from Cheshire, who served as an MP from 1646 to 1661, when he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Delamer. A member of the moder ...

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, who was seated at

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