The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . MaOAAAjt JS. Joca^UtjLu, 180 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. BOOTH, Junius Brutus, the elder, actor, wasborn in St. Pancras, a suburb of London, Eng.,May 1, 1796. His father was Richard B
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . MaOAAAjt JS. Joca^UtjLu, 180 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. BOOTH, Junius Brutus, the elder, actor, wasborn in St. Pancras, a suburb of London, Eng.,May 1, 1796. His father was Richard Booth, anattorney, who designed his son to follow the sameprofession, and sent him to Eton, where the boy be-came proficient in the classics. He showed remark-able aptitude for learning anything to which heapplied his mind, and became an accomplished lin-guist, speaking French, Spanish, Italian, Germanand Flemish fluently. He also wrote poetry, paint-ed in oils, was something of a sculptor, but finallydetermined to enter the navy. He had actually ob-tained a commission as a midshipman, but his father,learning that he was about tobe ordered to fight against theAmericans—as the war of 1813was just beginning—inducedyoung Junius to give up hisplan. The fact was thatRichard Booth strongly fa-vored the Americans, even atthe time of the outbreak of therevolution. The young mannext became interested in thetheatre. He joined an amateur Thespian society, and madehis f
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