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

Church of England titles
Preceded by Lloyd Morrell	Archdeacon of Lewes 1959–1971	Succeeded by Max Godden

v t e Archdeacons of Lewes, of Hastings and of Lewes & Hastings
High Medieval	Jordan de Melburne Joceline Eustachius de Leveland Reginald de Wintonia William de Lughteburg Robert Passelewe Simon de Clympingham Henry Godfrey de Peckham Thomas de Berghstede
Late Medieval	Thomas Cobham John de Godele Hamelin de Godele John Geytentun Thomas de Codelowe Walter de Lyndrich William de Loughteburgh John Courdray Walter Forey Richard Stone John Wendover John Brampton Lewis Coychurch Thomas Hanwell William Skylton John Dogett John Plemth Simon Climping Thomas Oatley Richard Hill Edward Vaughan William Atwater William Cradock Oliver Pole Anthony Wayte Edward More
Early modern	John Sherry Richard Brisley Robert Taylor Edmund Weston Thomas Drant William Coell William Cotton John Mattock Richard Buckenham William Hutchinson Thomas Hook Philip King Nathaniel Hardy Toby Henshaw Joseph Sayer Richard Bowchier James Williamson Edmund Bateman Thomas D'Oyly John Courtail Matthias D'Oyly Edward Raynes Thomas Birch Julius Hare William Otter
Late modern	John Hannah Robert Sutton Theodore Churton (became Archdeacon of Hastings) Henry Southwell, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Hugh Hordern Francis Smythe Lloyd Morrell Peter Booth Max Godden (became Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings)
Hastings (1912–1975)	created from Lewes Theodore Churton (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Benedict Hoskyns Arthur Upcott Thomas Cook, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Arthur Alston Ernest Reid Guy Mayfield dissolved/merged to Lewes & Hastings
Lewes & Hastings	Max Godden (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Christopher Luxmoore Hugh Glaisyer Nicholas Reade Philip Jones renamed to Hastings
Hastings (2014–present)	Philip Jones (previously Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings) Stan Tomalin (Acting) Edward Bryant & Nick Cornell (Acting) Edward Dowler

v t e Diocese of Chichester
Chichester Cathedral The Palace, Chichester Diocesan Church House, Hove Area scheme (1984–2013)
Office holders	Martin Warner, Bishop of Chichester Ruth Bushyager, Bishop of Horsham Will Hazlewood, Bishop of Lewes AEO: the bishop diocesan & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Dean of Chichester (vacant) Martin Lloyd Williams, Archdeacon of Brighton & Lewes Edward Dowler, Archdeacon of Hastings Luke Irvine-Capel, Archdeacon of Chichester Angela Martin, Archdeacon of Horsham
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Hastings (1912–1975; merged back into Lewes archdeaconry)

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