Peter Booth (priest)

David Herbert "Peter" Booth MBE QHC (26 January 1907 – 24 March 1993)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes[2] from 1959[3] to 1971 and Headmaster of Shoreham Grammar School from 1972 to 1977.

Booth was educated at Bedford School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

[4] He began ordained ministry as a curate at All Saints' Hampton[5] after which he was chaplain of Tonbridge School from 1935 to 1940.

Following World War II service in the RNVR[6] he was Rector of Stepney from 1945 to 1953 and Vicar of Brighton from 1953 to 1959.

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