George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (b. 1622)
George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (18 December 1622 – 8 August 1684), was an English landowner and politician from Cheshire, who served as an MP from 1646 to 1661, when he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Delamer.
A member of the moderate Presbyterian faction that dominated the Long Parliament and many of the pre-war county elites, Booth fought for Parliament during the First English Civil War. He relinquished his commission when elected MP for Cheshire in 1646, a seat he retained throughout the Protectorate.
Suspected of involvement in the 1655 Royalist Penruddock uprising, in 1659 he led Booth's Uprising, in support of Charles II of England. Intended as part of a larger conspiracy, it was quickly defeated, but Booth escaped punishment and after The Restoration in 1660, he was rewarded with a peerage.
However, concerns over reforms to the Church of England and Charles' use of the Royal Prerogative led him into opposition and during the 1679 to 1681 Exclusion Crisis, he supported barring the Catholic James from the throne. He died in August 1684; his son Henry was briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer after the 1688 Glorious Revolution.