450 COMPLETE PEERAGE basing b. 19 May 1826, in London ; ed. at Winchester (gold medal for Latin verse 1844), and at Billiol Coll. Oxford ; B.A. and 2nd class classics, 1847 ; M.A. 1850 ; Barrister (Inner Temple) 1851 ; took the name of Sclater Booth in lieu of that of Sclater 30 Nov. 1857 (in compliance with the will of Anna Maria Booth) ; was M.P. for North Hants, 1857-85, and for the Basingstoke div. of Hants, 1885-87 ; Pari. Sec. to the Poor Law Board, 1867-68 ; Financial Sec. to the Treasury, Feb. to Dec. 1868 ; P.C. 2 Mar. 1874 ; Pres. of the Local Govt. Board, 1874-80 ; a Gov. of Winchester School ; F.R.S. 20 Jan. 1876; Official Verderer of the New Forest, 1877. On 7 July 1887, he was cr. BARON BASING OF BASING BYFLETE AND OF HODDINGTON, both in co. Southampton. (") He m., 8 Dec. 1857, at Crondall, Hants, Lydia Caroline, only da. of Major George Birch, H.E.I.C.S., of Clare Park in that co., by Lydia Diana, da. of Samuel Francis Dashwood, of Stanford, Notts. She d. 5 July 188 i, and was bur. at Upton Grey, Hants. He d. atHoddington House afsd., 22 Oct. 1894, aged 68, and was bur. at Upton Grey. Q) Will pr. at £^(),^'] gross and
- ^24,732 net personalty.
II. 1894. 2. George Limbrey (Sclater-Booth), Baron Basing OF Basing Byflete and of Hoddington [1887], ist s. and h. ; ^. I Jan. i860, in New Str., Spring Gardens, Whitehall ; ed. at Eton, and at Balliol Coll., Oxford ; B.A. 1862 ; sometime Capt. ist Dragoons. He m., 12 Dec. 1889, at Maiden Earley, Berks, Mary, 2nd da. of John Hargreaves, of Maiden Earley afsd., and of Whalley Abbey, CO. Lancaster, by Mary Jane, da. of Alexander Cobham Cobham, of Shinfield, Bucks. [John Limbrey Robert Sclater-Booth, s. and h., b. 1890.] Family Estates. — These in 1833, were under 2,000 acres. Principal Residence. — Hoddington House, near Odiham, Hants. (*) He was one of the 8 " Jubilee " Barons cr. that month. For a list of these see note sub " Cheylesmore. " C') Lord Randolph Churchill speaks of him in, apparently unduly, disparaging fashion as " Mediocrity distinguished by a double-barrelled name. " He is elsewhere called " A painstaking useful man, but not of the sort to fill the House at the dinner hour. " {Men and Mannen in Pari., 1874.) V.G.
