page_title: Charles Booth (social reformer)
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Booth (social reformer) / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaque erected in 1951 by London County Council at 6 Grenville Place, South Kensington, London SW7 4RW, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
context_page_description: Charles James Booth was a British shipowner, social researcher and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century.
  Booth's work, along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, influenced government policy regarding poverty in the early 20th century and helped initiate Old Age pensions and free school meals for the poorest children.
context_section_description: Booth purchased William Holman Hunt's painting The Light of The World, which he donated to St Paul's Cathedral in 1908.
  Early in 1912 Booth stood down as chairman of Alfred Booth and Company in favour of his nephew Alfred Allen Booth, but in 1915 returned willingly to work under wartime exigencies despite growing evidence of heart disease.
  In later life, Booth retired to Grace Dieu Manor near Thringstone, Leicestershire. He died on 23 November 1916 and was buried in Saint Andrew's churchyard. A memorial dedicated to him stands on Thringstone village green, and a blue plaque has been erected on his house in South Kensington: 6 Grenville Place.
caption: The blue plaque to Charles Booth at 6 Grenville Place, London SW7.
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