George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington
| George Booth | |
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Lord Warrington circa 1730
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| Born |
2 May 1675 Mere Hall, Cheshire |
| Died | 2 August 1758 (aged 83) Dunham Massey, Cheshire |
| Resting place | Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon |
| Title |
Earl of Warrington, Baron Delamer, Baronet |
| Tenure | 1694 - 1758 |
| Nationality |
 England
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| Locality | Cheshire |
George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (2 May 1675 – 2 August 1758) was an English peer and landowner, who amassed a fine collection of silver.
Born at Mere Hall, Cheshire on 2 May 1675, the second son of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington by Mary, daughter of Sir James Langham Bt, of Cottesbrooke, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Delamer before succeeding to the family titles upon his father's death in 1694.
Apart from being a renowned collector of silver plate, he received the appointment of Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, another nobleman being nominated to discharge the duties during his minority.
In 1739, he wrote, Considerations upon the Institution of Marriage, with some thoughts concerning the force and obligation of the marriage contract, wherein is considered how far divorces may or may not be allowed, By a Gentleman. Humbly submitted to the judgment of the impartial. It is an argument in favour of divorce on the ground of incompatibility of temper. From other sources we learn that he had been convinced of the advisability of admitting this as a sufficient reason by his own unhappy experiences. Luttrell states that the lady had a fortune of £40,000, and Philip Bliss, in a manuscript note in a copy of Walpole‘s Royal and Noble Authors, now in the British Museum, adds:
Some few years after my lady had consign'd up her whole fortune to pay my lord’s debts, they quarrelled, and lived in the same house as absolute strangers to each other at bed and hoard.
Of the earl and his lady there is an amusing and not too flattering description in a letter by Mrs, Bradshaw, printed in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (1824), i. 97:
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