Junius Brutus Booth

(1796-1852)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 DNB: Booth, Junius Brutus (1796-1852), actor LBT ID: JuBooth1852 VIAF ID: 67268287 LOC ID: n82201391	B/BAP: 1796-05-01 DIED: 1852-11-30
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English-born actor who began his stage career in London. After emigrating to America in 1821 he became the father of the actors Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth.
REFERENCES TO Junius Brutus Booth: Charles Kemble to William Harness, 24 April 1834 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 17 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III.