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.^[7] He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.^[8]