Delamere, George Booth, 1st Baron

Delamere, George Booth, 1st Baron

▪ English politician
also called (1636–61)  Sir George Booth, 2nd Baronet 
born August 1622
died August 8, 1684, Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England

      English politician who led an abortive Royalist revolt against the Commonwealth government in August 1659. His insurrection foreshadowed the Royalist upsurge that resulted in the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.

      Booth sat in the Long Parliament in 1645 and, during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, in the Parliaments of 1654 and 1656. In 1655 he was appointed military commissioner for Cheshire and treasurer at war. But after a group of army officers seized power from Cromwell's son and successor, Richard, in May 1659, Booth was barred from Parliament. He therefore joined the Presbyterian Royalists in plotting widespread revolts in England. On August 19 he seized Cheshire, but by this time the uprisings elsewhere had already failed. Gen. John Lambert then defeated his forces at Nantwich Bridge, and Booth fled, disguised as a woman. He was discovered and apprehended on August 23 and committed to the Tower of London. After the defeat of Lambert by the Royalists in January 1660, Booth was released. He sat in the Convention Parliament that invited Charles II to return from exile (May 1660) to assume the English throne, and in 1661 he was made Baron Delamere. Booth thereafter participated in local politics and in national issues that came before the House of Lords. He was concerned with the rights of Protestant Nonconformists.

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