George Sclater-Booth
1826–94
Politician. Educated at Winchester, and Balliol College, Oxford. Conservative MP for North Hampshire, 1857–87. Held a variety of financial posts in the government, including financial secretary to the Treasury, 1868. Privy councillor. Created Lord Basing, 1887. FRS 1876.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London
Stenton 1976.
Bibliography
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.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
Stenton, Michael. 1976. Who’s who of British members of Parliament, 1832–1885. Volume 1 of Who’s who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod’s Parliamentary companion and other sources. Brighton: Harvester Press.
