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Hill Boothby (27 October 1708 – 16 January 1756) was an English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson. Life. Boothby was born in Ashbourne in 1708. She was the granddaughter of Sir William Boothby, third baronet, and daughter of Mr. Brook Boothby, of Ashbourne Hall.
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet (3 June 1744 – 23 January 1824) was a British linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin.
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Miss Anna Seward calls her ‘the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby who read her bible in Hebrew.’ She made the acquaintance of Dr. Johnson about three years before her death, while she was presiding over the household of a distant relation, Mr. Fitzherbert, of Tissington, near Ashbourne, for whose late wife she had entertained an ...
Sir William Boothby, 1st Bt. (c. 1638-1706/7) was the son of Sir Henry Boothby, 1st Bt. and Mary Hayes. He m.(1) Frances Milward, daughter of Colonel John Milward, after 13 August 1653 and (2) Hon. Hill Brooke, daughter of Sir William Brooke and Penelope Hill, on 6 April 1657 at Chiswick, London, England.
The Boothby chapel in St Oswald's contains many monuments to the family and includes one for Miss Hill Boothby, the friend and correspondent of Dr Samuel Johnson. The most renowned of the Boothby monuments is that of a five year old girl, Penelope Boothby.
Time Line. Miss Hill Boothby was a close friend and regular correspondent with Dr Johnson. Their letters show strong affection if not romance. Sir William Boothby of Broadlow Ash purchased the Hall and much of the estate in 1671 and his family lived there until the mid-19th century.
