Penyston Booth was an 18th-century English priest in the Church of England.
Background
Booth was born in Lusby, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Thomas Booth and his wife Anne (née Penyston) and a cousin of Sir Fairmeadow Penyston. He was descended from the Booths of Killingholme.
His eldest brother, Captain Robert Booth, married Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, and sister-in-law of Thomas Pelham-Holles (later British prime minister).
Education
Booth was educated at Lincoln School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree in 1702, proceeding Master of Arts (Master of Arts) in 1705.
Career
He was the Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765. A collateral branch of the Booth family inherited the Dunham Massey estate and were Earls of Warrington. Elected a fellow of Magdalene College in 1702, Booth was ordained in 1703 by James Gardiner, Bishop of Lincoln.
He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (Doctor of Divinity) by Cambridge University in 1728.
Booth married Katherine, daughter of the Revd Canon Edward Jones, in 1728. Their only child, Katherine Booth (whose eldest son was Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones) is an ancestor of the 16th and present Baroness Berners.
Booth was a canon of Street George"s Chapel, Windsor from 1722 to 1729 and Dean of Windsor from 1729 to 1765. Booth also held the following positions:
Perpetual curate of Apley, Lincolnshire, 1707
Rector of Potterhanworth, 1717
Prebendary of Welton in Lincoln Cathedral, 1719
Canon of Windsor, 1722 - 1729
Vicar of Twickenham, 1724 - 1730
Dean of Wolverhampton, 1729
Canon Chancellor of Street Paul"s Cathedral, 1733
In 1722, Booth was appointed to the second canon"s stall of Street George"s Chapel, Windsor.
He held this sinecure until 1729 when he was appointed dean
Booth was buried at Street George"s Chapel, a week after his death, on 29 September 1765.