User:Darrel Hockley/Charles Booth (non juroring bishop)

Charles Booth, Non Juroring Bishop, was a son of George Booth, a watchmaker, of Manchester, England. On 18 January 1779 Charles and his brother Benjamin were admitted to the Manchester School. Charles followed his father in the watchmaking trade and also established his business in Manchester. The Booth family were members of the "British Orthodox Church", a split off of the Anglican Non Jurors founded in 1734 by Bishop Dr. Thomas Deacon. Charles served as a priest in this church; in 1804 the Manchester congregation numbered some 30 people and they met for worship in an oratory in Booth's house on Long Millgate Street. That year Charles was consecrated a bishop by +Thomas Garnett. Traditionally he is said to have died in Ireland in 1805 but recent research shows him as being very much alive in Manchester up to the year 1819. The Anglican Episcopal Succession from the Scottish Episcopal Church from Archbishop Alexander Ross (or Rose) to Charles Booth is as follows: Alexander Ross (Rose) consecrated on 25 August 1711 Archibald Campbell who consecrated in 1733 Thomas Deacon who consecrated on 8 March 1752 Kenrick Price who consecrated on 4 November 1781 William Cartwright who consecrated in 1795 Thomas Garnett who consecrated in 1804 Charles Booth