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Booth, Charles
1840 - Born on the 30th of March in Liverpool.
1862 - At the age 22 Booth took control of his father's company.
1866 - Booth and his brother Alfred began a shipping service between Europe and Brazil.
1871 - Married Mary Macaulay on 29th of April who was niece of the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.
1901 - The business was reorganized as Booth Steamship Company, Ltd with Charles Booth as chairman.
1904 - Appointed a privy councillor.
1905-1909 - He was a member of the royal commission on the poor law.
1916 - Died on the 23rd of November in Whitwick, Leicestershire, England.
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Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry: Life and Labour of the People in London Reconsidered by Rosemary O'Day and Dand Englander (Hardcover - May 13, 2005) Charles Booth's pioneering survey, Life and Labour of the People in London, published in seventeen volumes between 1889 and 1903, was a landmark in empirical social investigation. His panorama of... |
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The Excommunicator by Ahmad and Booth, Charles G Kamal (Hardcover - Jul 25, 2008) |
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The aged poor in England and Wales: Condition by Charles Booth (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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The new survey of London life&labour: Volume IX, life and leisure by London School of Economics and Political Science (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008) |
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Murder at high tide, by Charles G Booth (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008) |
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Audels answers on automobiles,: For owners, operators, repairmen ... including chapters on the storage battery, electric vehicles, motor cycles, overhauling the car, etc. Fully illustrated and indexed by Charles Edwin Booth (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008) |
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