George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing
Victoria | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Preceded by | James Stansfeld |
| Succeeded by | John George Dodson |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 4 March 1868 – 1 December 1868 | |
| Preceded by | George Ward Hunt |
| Succeeded by | Acton Smee Ayrton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 May 1826 London |
| Died | 22 October 1894 (aged 68) Hoddington House, Hampshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Lydia Birch (d. 1881) |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
George Limbrey Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing
DL (19 May 1826 – 22 October 1894), known as George Sclater-Booth before 1887, was a British Conservative politician. He served as President of the Local Government Board under Benjamin Disraeli
between 1874 and 1880.
Background and education
Born George Sclater, Basing was the son of William Lutley Sclater, of Hoddington House,
called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1851. In 1857 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Booth to fulfil the will of Anna Maria Booth.[1]
Political career
Basing was elected
Leblanc Process.[5] Booth's Alkali Act Amendment Bill came into force on 1 March 1875. In 1887, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Basing, of Basing Byflete and of Hoddington, both in the County of Southampton.[6]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876.[7]
Family
Lord Basing married Lydia Caroline, daughter of George Birch, in 1857. They had four sons and six daughters. She died in July 1881. Lord Basing survived her by thirteen years and died at Hoddington House, Hampshire, in October 1894, aged 68. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George.[8]
In 1898 his daughter Eleanor Birch Sclater-Booth married Henry Wilson-Fox, who was later a Conservative MP.[9]
References
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- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Hackney-Harwich". Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "No. 24072". The London Gazette. 6 March 1874. p. 1519.
- ^ ALKALI ACT (1863) AMENDMENT BILL. HC Deb 11 May 1874 vol 219 c151
- ^ "No. 25718". The London Gazette. 5 July 1887. p. 3626.
- ^ "Library Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "thepeerage.com George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing of Basin Byflete and of Hoddington". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- ^ Arthur G. M. Hesilrige, ed. (1918). Debrett's House of Commons and The Judicial Bench 1918. London: Dean and Son. p. 59. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- OCLC 8047.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]