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George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (May 2, 1675 – August 2, 1758) was an English peer and landowner, who amassed a fine collection of silver. ==Life== 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: 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: Besides his pamphlet on divorce the earl was the author of a Letter to the writer of the "Present State of the Republic of Letters", vindicating his father from the reflections against him in Burnet’s ''History of his own Time''. Lord Warrington died on 2 August 1758, and was buried in the ''Booth Chapel'', the family vault, at Bowdon Church, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Dunham Massey Hall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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