Peter Booth (priest)
David Herbert "Peter" Booth MBE QHC (26 January 1907 – 24 March 1993)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes[2] from 1959[3] to 1971 and Headmaster of Shoreham Grammar School from 1972 to 1977.
Booth was educated at Bedford School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[4] He began ordained ministry as a curate at All Saints' Hampton[5] after which he was chaplain of Tonbridge School from 1935 to 1940. Following World War II service in the RNVR[6] he was Rector of Stepney from 1945 to 1953 and Vicar of Brighton from 1953 to 1959.[7] He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Personal Column", The Times (London, England), 26 March 1993; p. 18.
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ "Ecclesiastical News: Archdeacon of Lewes appointed", The Times, London, England, 17 August 1959; p. 10.
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ All Saints' Hampton website
- ^ Navy List Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom): London, HMSO, June 1944
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76, London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X.
- ^ London Gazette
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