[2] As a young man, he pursued the religious studies of the Church of England, and took Holy Orders in 1785.

[3] Shortly after his ordination, Booker became a lecturer at St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, after which he became a curate at Oldswinford.

"... that at a time when a gloomy spirit is pervading the country, not only diminishing the stock of harmless enjoyments, but endangering a morbid taste detrimental also to elegant literature, a drama might be constructed, though not professedly of a sacred character, against which fanaticism itself should have no just cause to allege any objection."

A charity preacher and an early contributor to the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine,[6] Booker was a prolific publisher of poems and sermons, and at least one play.

The son, Thomas William Booker, was adopted by Blakemore, raised at Melingriffith Tin Plate Works,[9] and became MP for Herefordshire.