326 In Memoriam.— The late Mr. T. C. Booth. 
this was always more than counterbalanced by his readiness and 
devotion in carrying out whatever he saw to be necessary. He 
was endowed with great promptitude of decision, an attribute 
often requisite in the early days of the Society's Trials of 
Implements, when the exhibitors and their employes were not 
so well trained as they have become by subsequent experience ; 
and although he required his decisions to be carried out to 
the very letter, and enforced them when necessary, there always 
predominated a frankness and manliness of character which 
won the confidence of all with whom he came in contact, and 
endeared him to those who had the advantage of being associated 
with him as colleagues. 
By the writer, who is now the only remaining officer who 
shared his labour in the early days of the Society's history, his 
memory will ever be cherished, and sincerely respected. 
XII.— T7ie late Mr. T. C. Booth, of Warlahy. By H. Chandos- 
Pole-Gell, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire. 
The subject of this brief memoir, Thomas Christopher Booth, 
was born at Killerby Hall, near Catterick, Yorkshire, on De- 
cember 3rd, 1832. He was the third son of the late Mr. John 
Booth, of Killerby, and of Jane, daughter of Mr. Charles Wright, 
of Cleasby, one of the spirited purchasers of the celebrated bull 
"Comet" (155), Coates's ' Herd Book.' Mrs. Booth's mother 
was the daughter of Mr. Charge, of Barton, near Darlington, 
another of the joint owners of this animal. Mr. Booth's paternal 
grandfather, Mr, I'homas Booth, of Killerby and VVarlaby, was 
one of the earliest breeders of Shorthorns, and founded the herd 
which has been handed down to the present time through three 
generations. The present Booth family may thus be said to have 
been born and reared in an atmosphere of Shorthorn interests, and 
the mantle of their ancestors fell on no unworthy shoulders, as 
both the brothers who engaged in farming pursuits hav^ made a 
ma,rk in their profession. Mr. T. C. Booth was educated at the 
Kepier Grammar School at Houghton-le-Spring, in the county 
of Durham, under the mastership of the Rev. J. Young, D.D. 
During his school career he distinguished himself by steady 
application to work in school hours, and earnest attention to 
play when work was over : he was generally head of his class, a 
leader in all boyish games, and a universal favourite with his 
fellows. At about the ago of sixteen he entered the office of 
Messrs. T. and H. Littledale and Co., brokers, of Liverpool, to 
whom he was apprenticed for the usual term of five years. Here, 
