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3 unusual facts about Booth family


Booth family

Edwin Booth bought an interest in the Winter Garden Theatre at 667 Broadway in New York City together with his brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke.

Cherie Blair, daughter of Tony Booth and the wife of Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Asia Booth (1835–1888), married John Sleeper Clarke, an actor/comedian who was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the assassination.


Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster

Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family) by his wife Barbara Patricia (daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin).


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David G. Booth

In 2004 the Booth family gave $9 million to the University of Kansas to fund the Booth Family Hall of Athletics attached to Allen Fieldhouse.

Garry Allighan

In 1961 he published the controversial Four Bonnets to Golgotha, a book about four members of the Booth family: Catherine, Florence, Evangeline Booth and Catherine Bramwell-Booth.