Henry
Booth
was born in 1788. He became a Liverpool
corn merchant and was an early advocate of railways. In 1822 he became
the secretary and treasurer of the proposed Liverpool
& Manchester Railway. Booth organised and raised the initial
capital of £300,000, wrote all the prospectuses and most of the
reports published by the company between 1824 to 1830.
Booth worked for the Liverpool & Manchester
Railway until the company was merged with the Grand
Junction Railway in 1845. Booth became a director of the new merged
company London
& North Western Railway until 1859.
Although mainly a railway administrator, Booth was interested in locomotive
technology. It is claimed that he was influential in the evolution
of the multi-tubular boiler. Henry Booth died in 1869.
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