Booth, Peniston, Doctor of Divinity 1681-1765, dean of Windsor, published a single sermon, Of Baptism, 8vo, on Gal. iii. 27, in 1718. He was prebendary of Lincoln (1719-1746). On 9 May 1722 he was appointed canon of Windsor; on 26 April 1729 was installed dean of Windsor; and on 23 July 1733 was collated chancellor of London. By 1749 he had made many improvements in the deanery. Two of the plates in Pote's History of Windsor, concerning St. George's Chapel (pp. 60 and 72), are inscribed to him and his canons. He died on 21 Sept. 1765, aged 84.

Sources:
     Cooke's The Preacher's Assistant, i. 376, ii. 45
     Le Neve's Fasti (Hardy), ii. 361, iii. 376, 407
     Pote's Hist. of Windsor, 60, 72, 123, 411, 413
     Gent. Mag. 1765, xxxv. 443.

Contributor: J. H. [Jennett Humphreys]

Published: 1885