Brooke Boothby, 6th baronet (1744–1824)

Poet and writer. Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. Commissioned in the Eighteenth Light Dragoons. In 1772, retired on half pay to Lichfield and joined the literary circle there that included Erasmus Darwin. Left England about 1794 and travelled throughout Europe. Published poems, translations, and political works, including Rousseau juge de Jean Jacques: dialogue (1780) and Sorrows sacred to the memory of Penelope (1796). Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1789.