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He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1831. 
In 1840 he was elected Member for Ludlow, and again in 1841. 
In 1847 he was beaten by the Whig candidate. 
In 1857 he was solicited to stand again, and he sat in Parlia- 
ment for Ludlow for the rest of his life. 
Mr Botfield was a member of the Eoyal Society of London, 
the Eoyal Geographical Society, Eoyal Institution, Society of Arts, 
of the Antiquaries of London, Scotland, and Copenhagen, of the 
Eoyal Irish Academy, I’lnstitut d’Afrique, and of all the principal 
Societies in the Kingdom, and of a great number of literary Clubs, — 
as the Eoxhurghe, Eannatyne, Maitland, Spalding, Surtees,Abbots- 
ford, Camden, Percy, H^lfric, Hakluyt, Cheetham ; to most of 
which he gave valuable contributions, his part being generally to 
defray the expense. 
In addition to these, and some smaller tracts printed for private 
circulation, Mr Eotfield published “ Notes on the Cathedral 
Libraries of England,” from a personal examination, 1849 ; “ Pre- 
faces to the First Editions of the Greek and Eoman Classics, and of 
the Sacred Scriptures,” 1861. Large 4to. 
Another work, for which he was making collections when he 
died, and which would have been of great interest and value, was 
intended to illustrate the history of the old monastic libraries of 
England. A collection of the extant catalogues and inventories of 
these was already in type, to which he meant to add the catalogues 
of other Middle Age libraries. His collections, made for these 
objects will, it is feared, he lost to the world by his death. He 
had previously edited (in 1838), for the Surtees Society, catalogues 
of the Library of Durham Cathedral, at various periods. 
In 1858, Mr Botfield printed, for private circulation, Stemmata 
Rotevilliana, a large volume illustrating the descent and anti- 
quities of all the Bottevilles, Thynnes, and Botfields. 
He was a liberal collector of pictures, and was also known as a 
zealous book-hunter. 
Mr Botfield married Isabella, daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, 
Bart., but left no family ; and has entailed a considerable part of 
his property on the second son of the Marquis of Bath, in respect 
of a very old but perhaps real connexion between his family and 
the Thynnes. 
