Background
Booker was born in Nottingham, England.
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Career
Frederick Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ordained Booker without a title. Shortly after his ordination, Booker became a lecturer at Street Peter"s Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton, after which he became a curate at Oldswinford. Foreign many years thereafter, he served as vicar of Church of Saint Edmund in Dudley.
He returned to Dudley in 1812 through his association with William Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward.
Booker laid the cornerstone for Dudley"s Street Thomas Church on 25 October 1816. He remained at Dudley until shortly before his death, having preached 173 sermons.
During the Regency, Booker was one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to George IV. A charity preacher and an early contributor to the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, he was a prolific publisher of poems and sermons, and at least one play. In 1823, he edited Poetical Blossoms by poet Robert Millhouse.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a philanthropist.
Booker also served as Justice of the Peace for the counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Stafford.
