Robert Booth (judge)

Sir Robert Booth (1626–1680) was an English-born judge who had a highly successful career in Ireland, where he held the offices of Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland.

He belonged to the wealthy Booth family of Salford; he was the son of Robert Booth and Anne Mosley, daughter of Oswald Mosley of Ancoats, who was an ancestor of the prominent twentieth-century politician Sir Oswald Mosley. His father died when Robert was still young and his mother remarried the noted Presbyterian preacher Thomas Case. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1644. He entered Gray's Inn in 1642 and was called to the bar in 1650; he became an ancient of Gray's Inn in 1662.

He is first heard of in Ireland in the entourage of William Steele, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in 1657, and entered the King's Inns the same year. After the Restoration he had the good fortune to attract the favour of Steele's successor, Sir Maurice Eustace. Eustace was normally hostile to anyone who had been associated with the Cromwellian regime, but he admired Booth's legal ability and believed (perhaps naively) that his wealth would preserve him from any temptation to corruption. Booth was appointed an ordinary justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) in 1660 and its Chief Justice in 1670. He had already begun to suffer from the chronic ill-health which plagued his later years.

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