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Charles and Mary Booth had 7 children, 3 sons, and 4 daughters. His eldest daughter Antonia married the Hon Sir Malcolm Macnaghten, and others married into the Ritchie and Gore Browne families. Career. Booth's father died in 1860, bequeathing him control of the family business.
British. Period. 20th century. Genre. Fiction. Charles Gordon Booth (February 12, 1896 – May 22, 1949) was a British -born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn (1936) and Sundown (1941). He won an Academy Award for Best Story for The House on 92nd Street in 1945, a ...
Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century. During the 1860s Booth became interested in the philosophy of Auguste Comte, the founder ...
poverty. opinion poll. Charles Booth (born March 30, 1840, Liverpool, Eng.—died Nov. 23, 1916, Whitwick, Leicestershire) was an English shipowner and sociologist whose Life and Labour of the People in London, 17 vol. (1889–91, 1892–97, 1902), contributed to the knowledge of social problems and to the methodology of statistical measurement.
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Charles Booth was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1840, the son of Charles Booth and Emily Fletcher. His father was a corn merchant, and both father and mother were committed Unitarians. Charles attended the Royal Institution School in Liverpool until becoming apprenticed to Lamport and Holt's shipping company at the age of sixteen.
Downloadmaps. Background information on Charles Booth, his Inquiry into Life and Labour in London and the associated poverty map.
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The archive of Charles Booth's late nineteenth century inquiry holds a staggering amount of original primary source information about London at that time. We hold the archive of this mammoth undertaking including the notebooks, questionnaires and original survey data. Booth was most interested in surveying London's poverty, work and industries ...
