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DELAMERE (or DE LA MER), GEORGE BOOTH

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELAMERE (or DE LA MER), See also:GEORGE See also:BOOTH  , 1st See also:BARON (1622-1684), son of See also:William See also:Booth, a member of an See also:ancient See also:family settled at Dunham See also:Massey in See also:Cheshire, and of See also:Vere, daughter and co-See also:heir of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Egerton, was See also:born in See also:August 1622 . He took an active See also:part in the See also:Civil See also:War with his See also:grand-See also:father, Sir See also:George Booth, on the See also:parliamentary See also:side . He was returned for Cheshire to the See also:Long See also:Parliament in 1645 and to See also:Cromwell's parliaments of 1654 and 1656 . In 1655 he was appointed military See also:commissioner for Cheshire and treasurer at war . He was one of the excluded members who tried and failed to regain their seats after the fall of See also:Richard Cromwell in 1659 . He had for some See also:time been regarded by the royalists as a well-wisher to their cause, and was described to the See also:king in May 1659 as " very considerable in his See also:country, a presbyterian in See also:opinion, yet so moral a See also:man . . . I think your See also:Majesty may safely [rely] on him and his promises which are considerable and hearty."' He now became one of the See also:chief leaders of the new " royalists " who at this time See also:united with the cavaliers to effect the restoration . A rising was arranged for the 5th of August in several districts, and Booth took See also:charge of operations in Cheshire, See also:Lancashire and See also:North See also:Wales . He got See also:possession of See also:Chester on the 19th, issued a See also:proclamation declaring that arms had been taken up " in vindication of the freedom of parliament, of the known See also:laws, See also:liberty and See also:property," and marched towards See also:York . The See also:plot, however, was known to See also:Thurloe . It had entirely failed in other parts of the country, and See also:Lambert advancing with his forces defeated Booth's men at See also:Nantwich See also:Bridge .

Booth him-self escaped disguised as a woman, but was discovered at See also:

Newport Pagnell on the 23rd in the See also:act of shaving, and was imprisoned in the See also:Tower . He was, however, soon liberated, took his seat in the parliament of 1659-1660, and was one of the twelve members deputed to carry the See also:message of the See also:Commons to See also:Charles II. at the See also:Hague . In See also:July 166o he received a See also:grant of £10,000, having refused the larger sum of £20,000 at first offered to him, and on the loth of See also:April 1661, on the occasion of the See also:coronation, he was created Baron See also:Delamere, with a See also:licence to create six new knights . The same See also:year he was appointed custos rotulorum of Cheshire . In later years he showed himself strongly antagonistic to the reactionary policy of the See also:government . He died on the 8th of August 1684, and was buried at Bowdon . He married (1) See also:Lady See also:Catherine See also:Clinton, daughter and co-heir of See also:Theophilus, 4th See also:earl of See also:Lincoln, by whom he had one daughter; and (2) Lady See also:Elizabeth See also:Grey, daughter of See also:Henry, 1st earl of See also:Stamford, by whom, besides five daughters, he had seven sons, the second of whom, Henry, succeeded him in the See also:title and estates and was created earl of See also:Warrington . The earldom became See also:extinct on the See also:death of the latter's son, the 2nd earl, without male issue, in 1758, and the See also:barony of Delamere terminated in the See also:person of the 4th baron in 1770; the title was revived in 1821 in the Cholmondeley family . DE See also:LAND, a See also:town and the See also:county-seat of Volusia county, See also:Florida, U.S.A., 111 m. by See also:rail S. of See also:Jacksonville, 20 M. from the See also:Atlantic See also:coast and 4 M. from the St See also:John's See also:river . Pop . (19oo) 1449; (1910) 2812 . De Land is served by the Atlantic Coast See also:Line and by steamboats on the St John's river .

It has a See also:

fine See also:winter See also:climate, with an See also:average temperature of 6o° F., has See also:sulphur springs, and is a See also:health and winter resort . There is a 1 See also:Clarendon, See also:State Papers, iii . 472.943 See also:starch factory here; and the surrounding country is devoted to See also:fruit-growing . De Land is the seat of the John B . Stetson University (coeducational), an undenominational institution under Baptist See also:control, founded in 1884, as an See also:academy, by Henry A . De Land, a manufacturer of Fairport, New York, and in 1887 incorporated under the name of De Land University, which was changed in 1889 to the See also:present name, in See also:honour of John Batterson Stetson (1830-1906), a See also:Philadelphia manufacturer of hats, who during his See also:life gave nearly $5oo,000 to the institution . The university includes a See also:college of liberal arts, a See also:department of See also:law, a school of technology, an academy, a normal School, a See also:model school, a business college and a school of See also:music . De Land was founded in 1876 by H . A . De Land, above mentioned, who built a public school here in 1877 and a high school in 1883 .

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