Robert Bootle
{{Short description|English ship's captain in the service of the East India Company}}
Robert Bootle FRS ({{Circa|1694}} – 7 May 1758) was an English ship's captain in the service of the East India Company who was elected four times to serve as a director of the company.
Early life
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He was born at Lathom House in Lancashire, a younger son of Robert Bootle of Maghull. His elder brother was Sir Thomas Bootle, MP for Liverpool.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bootle-thomas-1685-1753|title=BOOTLE, Thomas (1685-1753), of Lathom Hall, nr. Liverpool, Lancs.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 6 March 2018}}
Career
He was the commander of the London Indiaman on five voyages to the East between 1723 and 1739. Apart from the London he had a financial interest in the Suffolk. He was a director of the East India Company in 1741–44, 1746–49, 1752–53, and 1755.{{cite web|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/12812986.pdf|title=The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790|accessdate= 7 December 2017}}
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1757. His application citation described him as " a gentleman well versed in Mathematical learning, & several other branches of polite literature".{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1757%2F16%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl|title=Fellow details|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 7 December 2017}}
Personal life
In 1732, Bootle married Anne Tooke, a daughter of Edmund Tooke of London.{{cite book |title=The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer |date=1732 |publisher=C. Ackers |page=489 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn9PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA489 |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=en}} She was a favorite cousin of John Loveday of Caversham.{{cite book |last1=Markham |first1=Sarah |title=John Loveday of Caversham, 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth-century Onlooker |date=1984 |publisher=M. Russell |isbn=978-0-85955-095-6 |pages=172, 394 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMYZAAAAYAAJ |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=en}} Together, they were the parents of one daughter:{{cite book |last1=Baines |first1=Edward |title=The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster |date=1893 |publisher=J. Heywood |pages=263, 271 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k8MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263 |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=en}}
- Mary Bootle (1734–1813),{{cite web |title=Mary Bootle, Mrs Wilbraham-Bootle (died 1813) |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5373/mary-bootle-mrs-wilbraham-bootle-died-1813 |website=www.nationalgalleries.org |publisher=National Galleries of Scotland |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=en}} who married Richard Wilbraham, MP for Chester (upon their marriage, he assumed the surname Wilbraham-Bootle.{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wilbraham-bootle-richard-1725-96| title=WILBRAHAM BOOTLE, Richard (1725-96), of Rode Hall, Cheshire| publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 9 September 2017}}
He lived in Hatton Garden, London before inheriting Lathom House in 1753 on the death of his unmarried elder brother, Thomas. On his own death in 1758 it passed to his daughter and sole heir, Mary.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 119.
=Descendants=
Through his daughter, he was a grandfather of at least six grandsons and eight granddaughters, including Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale who inherited Lathom House.{{cite book |title=Bulletins and Other State Intelligence |date=1854 |publisher=Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London gazette. |page=941 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=geI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA941 |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=en}}
See also
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Category:Sailors from Lancashire
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Directors of the British East India Company