Brooke Boothby, 6th baronet
1744–1824
Poet and writer. Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. Commissioned in the Eighteenth Light Dragoons. In 1772, retired on half pay to Lichfield and joined the literary circle there that included Erasmus Darwin. Left England about 1794 and travelled throughout Europe. Published poems, translations, and political works, including Rousseau juge de Jean Jacques: dialogue (1780) and Sorrows sacred to the memory of Penelope (1796). Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1789.
Sources
Complete baronetage vol. 3
ODNB
Bibliography
Complete baronetage. Edited by George Edward Cokayne. 6 vols. Exeter: William Pollard & Co. 1900–9.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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