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See also:BOOTH, See also:BARTON (1681–1933) , See also:English actor, who came of a See also:good See also:Lancashire See also:family, was educated at See also:Westminster school, where his success in the Latin See also:play See also:Andria gave him an inclination for the See also:stage. He was intended for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; but in 1698 he ran away from Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and obtained employment in a theatrical See also:company in See also:Dublin, where he made his first See also:appearance as Oroonoko. After two seasons in See also:Ireland he returned to See also:London, where See also:Betterton, who on an earlier application had withheld his active aid, probably out of regard for Booth's family, now gave him all the assistance in his See also:power. At See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields (1700–1704) he first appeared as See also:Maximus in Valentinian, and his success was immediate. He was at the Haymarket with Betterton from 1705 to 1708, and for the next twenty years at See also:Drury See also:Lane. Booth died on the loth of May 1733, and was buried in Westminster See also:Abbey. His greatest parts, after the See also:title-See also:part of See also:Addison's See also:Cato, which established his reputation as a tragedian, were probably Hotspur and See also:Brutus. His See also:Lear was deemed worthy of comparison with See also:Garrick's. As the See also:ghost in See also:Hamlet he is said never to have had a See also:superior. Among his other Shakespearian roles were See also:Mark Antony, See also:Timon of See also:Athens and Othello. He also played to perfection the See also:gay Lothario in Rowe's See also:Fair Penitent. Booth was twice married; his second wife, Hester Santlow, an actress of some merit, survived him.
See See also:Cibber, Lives and Characters of the most eminent Actors and Actresses (1753) ; See also:Victor, See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life of Barton Booth (1733).
End of Article: BOOTH, BARTON (1681–1933)
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